Re: [PATCH V2] kernel/watchdog: fix spurious hard lockups

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Don Zickus wrote:
> Hmm, all this work for a temp fix.  Kan, how much longer until the real fix
> of having perf count the right cycles?

Quite a while. The approach is wilfully breaking the user space ABI, which
is not going to happen.

And there is a simpler solution as well, as I said here:

    http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1706221730520.1885@nanos

Thanks,

	tglx