1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index c8c21be11ab4..997c6a16ec22 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 int watchdog_enabled = 1;
 int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10;
 static int __read_mostly watchdog_disabled;
+static u64 __read_mostly sample_period;
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, watchdog_touch_ts);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, softlockup_watchdog);
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ static unsigned long get_timestamp(int this_cpu)
         return cpu_clock(this_cpu) >> 30LL;  /* 2^30 ~= 10^9 */
 }
 
-static u64 get_sample_period(void)
+static void set_sample_period(void)
 {
         /*
          * convert watchdog_thresh from seconds to ns
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ static u64 get_sample_period(void)
          * and hard thresholds) to increment before the
          * hardlockup detector generates a warning
          */
-        return get_softlockup_thresh() * ((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC / 5);
+        sample_period = get_softlockup_thresh() * ((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC / 5);
 }
 
 /* Commands for resetting the watchdog */
@@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
         wake_up_process(__this_cpu_read(softlockup_watchdog));
 
         /* .. and repeat */
-        hrtimer_forward_now(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(get_sample_period()));
+        hrtimer_forward_now(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(sample_period));
 
         if (touch_ts == 0) {
                 if (unlikely(__this_cpu_read(softlockup_touch_sync))) {
@@ -356,7 +357,7 @@ static void watchdog_enable(unsigned int cpu)
         hrtimer->function = watchdog_timer_fn;
 
         /* done here because hrtimer_start can only pin to smp_processor_id() */
-        hrtimer_start(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(get_sample_period()),
+        hrtimer_start(hrtimer, ns_to_ktime(sample_period),
                       HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
 
         /* initialize timestamp */
@@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ static int watchdog_should_run(unsigned int cpu)
 /*
  * The watchdog thread function - touches the timestamp.
  *
- * It only runs once every get_sample_period() seconds (4 seconds by
+ * It only runs once every sample_period seconds (4 seconds by
  * default) to reset the softlockup timestamp. If this gets delayed
  * for more than 2*watchdog_thresh seconds then the debug-printout
  * triggers in watchdog_timer_fn().
@@ -519,6 +520,7 @@ int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
         if (ret || !write)
                 return ret;
 
+        set_sample_period();
         if (watchdog_enabled && watchdog_thresh)
                 watchdog_enable_all_cpus();
         else
@@ -540,6 +542,7 @@ static struct smp_hotplug_thread watchdog_threads = {
 
 void __init lockup_detector_init(void)
 {
+        set_sample_period();
         if (smpboot_register_percpu_thread(&watchdog_threads)) {
                 pr_err("Failed to create watchdog threads, disabled\n");
                 watchdog_disabled = -ENODEV;