Re: [patch 11/29] lockup_detector: Remove park_in_progress hackery

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 04 2017 - 08:11:12 EST


On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 01:09:06PM +0200, Ulrich Obergfell wrote:

> - A thread hogs CPU N (soft lockup) so that watchdog/N is unable to run.
> - A user re-configures 'watchdog_thresh' on the fly. The reconfiguration
> requires parking/unparking of all watchdog threads.

This is where you fail, its silly to require parking for
reconfiguration.