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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-24 20:47:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-24 20:47:21 -0700
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - ocfs2 udpates - kernel/watchdog.c feature work (took ages to get right) - most of MM. A few tricky bits are held up and probably won't make 4.2. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (91 commits) mm: kmemleak_alloc_percpu() should follow the gfp from per_alloc() mm, thp: respect MPOL_PREFERRED policy with non-local node tmpfs: truncate prealloc blocks past i_size mm/memory hotplug: print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add memory mm/mmap.c: optimization of do_mmap_pgoff function mm: kmemleak: optimise kmemleak_lock acquiring during kmemleak_scan mm: kmemleak: avoid deadlock on the kmemleak object insertion error path mm: kmemleak: do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_do_cleanup() mm: kmemleak: fix delete_object_*() race when called on the same memory block mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling memcg: convert mem_cgroup->under_oom from atomic_t to int memcg: remove unused mem_cgroup->oom_wakeups frontswap: allow multiple backends x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory mm/memblock: add extra "flags" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on attribute mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation paths mm/cma.c: fix typos in comments mm/oom_kill.c: print points as unsigned int mm/hugetlb: handle races in alloc_huge_page and hugetlb_reserve_pages ...
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@@ -923,6 +923,27 @@ and nmi_watchdog.
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+watchdog_cpumask:
+
+This value can be used to control on which cpus the watchdog may run.
+The default cpumask is all possible cores, but if NO_HZ_FULL is
+enabled in the kernel config, and cores are specified with the
+nohz_full= boot argument, those cores are excluded by default.
+Offline cores can be included in this mask, and if the core is later
+brought online, the watchdog will be started based on the mask value.
+
+Typically this value would only be touched in the nohz_full case
+to re-enable cores that by default were not running the watchdog,
+if a kernel lockup was suspected on those cores.
+
+The argument value is the standard cpulist format for cpumasks,
+so for example to enable the watchdog on cores 0, 2, 3, and 4 you
+might say:
+
+ echo 0,2-4 > /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_cpumask
+
+==============================================================
+
watchdog_thresh:
This value can be used to control the frequency of hrtimer and NMI