watchdog/softlockup: Replace "watchdog/%u" threads with cpu_stop_work
Oleg suggested to replace the "watchdog/%u" threads with cpu_stop_work. That removes one thread per CPU while at the same time fixes softlockup vs SCHED_DEADLINE. But more importantly, it does away with the single smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread() user, which allows cleanups/shrinkage of the smpboot interface. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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