powerpc: allow soft-NMI watchdog to cover timer interrupts with large decrementers
Large decrementers (e.g., POWER9) can take a very long time to wrap, so when the timer iterrupt handler sets the decrementer to max so as to avoid taking another decrementer interrupt when hard enabling interrupts before running timers, it effectively disables the soft NMI coverage for timer interrupts. Fix this by using the traditional 31-bit value instead, which wraps after a few seconds. masked interrupt code does the same thing, and in normal operation neither of these paths would ever wrap even the 31 bit value. Note: the SMP watchdog should catch timer interrupt lockups, but it is preferable for the local soft-NMI to catch them, mainly to avoid the IPI. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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