Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1

From: Don Zickus
Date: Fri May 17 2013 - 09:06:26 EST


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:31:04AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> In old kernels, it's allowed to set softlockup_thresh to -1 or 0
> to disable softlockup detection. However watchdog_thresh only
> uses 0 to disable detection, and setting it to -1 just froze my
> box and nothing I can do but reboot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
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