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

From Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups
Date 2017-06-21 23:10 +0200
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On 20/06/17 17:12, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>> Hmm ... odd that I haven't seen this.  We're running a pretty wide
>>> variety of systems here.  Do you have a reproducer?  I'd like to see
>>> this occur on production HW.

"Production" is where this patch was born and still lives right now:

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/506327/ 

>> It only happens on a few specific CPU SKUs with a very wide Turbo range.
> 
> Which ones?
> 

The ones with turbo mode > 2.5 x TSC_MHz when you stress them hard and long
enough. Simple maths: just compare the soft and hard timers in the code.

The factor 3 moves the condition to: turbo > 7.5 x TSC_MHz.

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[PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups kan.liang@intel.com - 2017-06-20 23:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-06-21 00:10 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2017-06-21 14:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2017-06-21 15:50 +0200
        RE: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2017-06-21 16:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2017-06-21 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-21 01:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> - 2017-06-21 02:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@intel.com> - 2017-06-21 23:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2017-06-21 15:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2017-06-21 16:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-28 13:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2017-06-28 15:30 +0200
      RE: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com> - 2017-06-28 16:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-28 16:40 +0200

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