Re: [PATCH 9/9] clocksource: Sanity check watchdog clocksource

From: John Stultz
Date: Mon Aug 17 2015 - 18:03:13 EST


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, John Stultz wrote:
>
>> From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
>>
>> Add a sanity check to make sure watchdog clocksource doesn't wrap too
>> quickly.
>
> Too quickly for what?

The maximum interval delay limit (which would prevent the logic from
avoiding false positives) .

I can try to expand this text and resend if you want.

Aren't you on vacation? :)
-john
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