Question about watchdog

[Justin Skists]

> On 02 July 2018 at 09:29 Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 08:58:16AM +0100, Justin Skists wrote:
> > 
> > > On 01 July 2018 at 13:44 bing zhu <zhubohong12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dear Sir/Ma'am
> > > Thank you for your time ,i'm a student new to linux kernel.at present ,i'd
> > > like to create a kernel thread
> > > say use kthread_create func ,my question is :how can i make this thread to
> > > run on a cpu and never get switched or scheduled , there is a
> > > while(1).....structure in that thread i need it to do work . at present i
> > > comes with errors like "NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for
> > > 23s! [test thread :1881]",i understand there is a watchdog but is there
> > > anyway i can feed the dog myself and let my thread have cpu as much as i
> > > want ?
> > 
> > Yowsers! Why would you want to do that? The whole idea of a watchdog is
> > to prevent threads hogging the CPU for a long time. Linux is a multi-user,
> > multi-process, pre-emptive operating system. It needs to share. :-)
> 
> Not true, Linux can take a cpu, remove itself from it, and run a single
> process if needed, just fine.  It's a great operating system for such a
> thing.

Hmm. Interesting. Looks like I've got more reading to do. :-)


Thanks,
Justin.