From 4eec42f392043063d0f019640b4ccc2a45570002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 22:10:23 -0700 Subject: watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh Before the conversion of the NMI watchdog to perf event, the watchdog timeout was 5 seconds. Now it is 60 seconds. For my particular application, netbooks, 5 seconds was a better timeout. With a short timeout, we catch faults earlier and are able to send back a panic. With a 60 second timeout, the user is unlikely to wait and will instead hit the power button, causing us to lose the panic info. This change configures the NMI period to watchdog_thresh and sets the softlockup_thresh to watchdog_thresh * 2. In addition, watchdog_thresh was reduced to 10 seconds as suggested by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-4-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar LKML-Reference: <20110517071642.GF22305@elte.hu> --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c index 5260fe91bcb6..d5e57db0f7be 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ #include #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR -u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(void) +u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh) { - return (u64)(cpu_khz) * 1000 * 60; + return (u64)(cpu_khz) * 1000 * watchdog_thresh; } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3