Re: Watchdog remote CPU read timed out

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Sun Oct 25 2026 - 17:54:44 EST


On Sun, Aug 30 2026 at 14:16, Michal Pecio wrote:
> This is another warning I'm getting on recent 7.x kernels, apparently
> from new code you wrote a few months ago.
>
> Increasing WATCHDOG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_NS to 100us makes it go away, at
> least for a few minutes (I will try longer uptime later).
>
> With a few debug prints, I found that watchdog_wait_seq() fails every
> few seconds, usually on CPU 0 but sporadically on others too.
>
> Example output below. Is this something to worry about / fix?

Nothing to worry about. The message is mostly informal.

Thanks,

tglx