kernel/watchdog.c: remove preemption restrictions when restarting lockup detector
commit bde92cf4 upstream. Peter Wu noticed the following splat on his machine when updating /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:965 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: init 3 locks held by init/1: #0: (sb_writers#3){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8117b663>] vfs_write+0x143/0x180 #1: (watchdog_proc_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810e02d3>] proc_dowatchdog+0x33/0x110 #2: (cpu_hotplug.lock){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff810589c2>] get_online_cpus+0x32/0x80 Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff810e0384>] proc_dowatchdog+0xe4/0x110 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc1-testing #34 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a __might_sleep+0x11d/0x190 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x4e/0x1e0 perf_event_alloc+0x55/0x440 perf_event...
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