Re: [PATCH V2] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Liang, Kan <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have confirmed that the hardlock with "speed up the hrtimer" patch is
> actually another issue.

Good.

However:

> Tim has already proposed a patch to fix it.
> Here is his patch. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/14/1000

Ugh. I hate that patch, and hope we can find a proper fix for it. But
I'll respond separately to it, and it's independent of the watchdog
issue.

                  Linus