watchdog: cleanup handling of false positives
Commit d6ad3e28 ("softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume") introduced touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). It solved a problem when the watchdog was touched in an atomic context, the timer callback was proceed right after releasing interrupts, and the local clock has not been updated yet. In this case, sched_clock_tick() was called in watchdog_timer_fn() before updating the timer. So far so good. Later commit 5d1c0f4a ("watchdog: add check for suspended vm in softlockup detector") added two kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() calls. They touch the watchdog when the guest has been sleeping. The code makes my head spin around. Scenario 1: + guest did sleep: + PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED is set + 1st watchdog_timer_fn() invocation: + the watchdog is not touched yet + is_softlockup() returns too big delay + kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused(): + clear PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED + call touch_softlockup_watchdo...
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