Re: [PATCH 2/3] watchdog/softlockup: Report the same softlockup regularly

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 12:47:31PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Softlockup report means that there is no progress on the given CPU. It
> might be a "short" affair where the system gets recovered. But often
> the system stops being responsive and need to get rebooted.
> 
> The softlockup might be root of the problems or just a symptom. It might
> be a deadlock, livelock, or often repeated state.
> 
> Regular reports help to distinguish different situations. Fortunately,
> the watchdog is finally able to show correct information how long
> softlockup_fn() was not scheduled.
> 
> Report before this patch:
> 
> [  320.248948] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 26s! [cat:4916]
> 
> And after this patch:
> 
> [  480.372418] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 26s! [cat:4943]
> [  508.372359] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 52s! [cat:4943]
> [  548.372359] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 89s! [cat:4943]
> [  576.372351] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 115s! [cat:4943]
> 
> Note that the horrible code never really worked before the accounting
> was fixed. The last working timestamp was regularly lost by the many
> touch*watchdog() calls.

So what's the point of patch 1? Just confusing people?