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authorLiu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>2014-04-07 15:38:57 -0700
committerShow Liu <show.liu@linaro.org>2014-06-18 11:42:47 +0800
commit168e3287aea596b4ceff161e6b6f709849802f7a (patch)
treeac64c45e14d0ffba110728769a3109ba98ed07cc /Documentation
parent948d4d9095265f621d79324cec8e4b2e90c6213a (diff)
hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"
commit 80df28476505ed4e6701c3448c63c9229a50c655 upstream. As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print : schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83 and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible again and again. The screen will be filled with "schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83" This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter. Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com> Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index e55124e7c40..855d9b37bf7 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ for more than this value report a warning.
This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
0: means infinite timeout - no checking done.
+Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}.
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