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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 68b21395a743..04c79017814b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1283,11 +1283,11 @@ This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector. = ================================= The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs -without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads -from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer -interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by -the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog — if enabled — can -detect a hard lockup condition. +without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'migration/N' threads +from running, causing the watchdog work fail to execute. The mechanism depends +on the CPUs ability to respond to timer interrupts which are needed for the +watchdog work to be queued by the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI +watchdog — if enabled — can detect a hard lockup condition. stack_erasing |