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authorLiu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>2014-04-07 15:38:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-07 16:36:07 -0700
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hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"
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> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 271a09db6629..9886c3d57fc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
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@@ -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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