watchdog: explicitly update timestamp when reporting softlockup
The softlockup situation might stay for a long time or even forever. When it happens, the softlockup debug messages are printed in regular intervals defined by get_softlockup_thresh(). There is a mystery. The repeated message is printed after the full interval that is defined by get_softlockup_thresh(). But the timer callback is called more often as defined by sample_period. The code looks like the soflockup should get reported in every sample_period when it was once behind the thresh. It works only by chance. The watchdog is touched when printing the stall report, for example, in printk_stack_address(). Make the behavior clear and predictable by explicitly updating the timestamp in watchdog_timer_fn() when the report gets printed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311122130.6788-3-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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