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David Miller reported:

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the following commit:

| commit 27ec4407
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date:   Thu Feb 28 21:00:21 2008 +0100
|
|     sched: make cpu_clock() globally synchronous
|
|     Alexey Zaytsev reported (and bisected) that the introduction of
|     cpu_clock() in printk made the timestamps jump back and forth.
|
|     Make cpu_clock() more reliable while still keeping it fast when it's
|     called frequently.
|
|     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

causes watchdog triggers when a cpu exits NOHZ state when it has been
there for >= the soft lockup threshold, for example here are some
messages from a 128 cpu Niagara2 box:

[  168.106406] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 128s! [dd:3239]
[  168.989592] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#21 stuck for 86s! [swapper:0]
[  168.999587] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#29 stuck for 91s! [make:4511]
[  168.999615] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 85s! [swapper:0]
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