watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Fri, 17 May 2013 02:31:04 +0000 (10:31 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 May 2013 09:28:18 +0000 (11:28 +0200)
In old kernels, it's allowed to set softlockup_thresh to -1 or 0
to disable softlockup detection. However watchdog_thresh only
uses 0 to disable detection, and setting it to -1 just froze my
box and nothing I can do but reboot.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959668.9040106@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sysctl.c

diff --cc kernel/sysctl.c
Simple merge