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When watchdog_hardlockup_probe() is being called by lockup_detector_delay_init(), an error return of -ENODEV will happen for the arm64 arch when arch_perf_nmi_is_available() returns false. This means that NMI is not usable by the hard lockup detector and so has to be disabled. This can be considered a deficiency in that particular arm64 chip, but there is nothing we can do about it. That also means the following error will always be reported when the kernel boot up. watchdog: Delayed init of the lockup detector failed: -19 The word "failed" itself has a connotation that there is something wrong with the kernel which is not really the case here. Handle this special ENODEV case separately and explain the reason behind disabling hard lockup detector without causing anxiety for those users who read the above message and wonder about it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240802151621.617244-1-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com> Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.