doc: watchdog: modify the explanation related to watchdog thread

"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work.  The current
description is extremely misleading.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-4-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ in principle, they should work in any architecture where these
subsystems are present. subsystems are present.
A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog
task. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh" job. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
(compile-time initialized to 10 and configurable through sysctl of the (compile-time initialized to 10 and configurable through sysctl of the
same name) seconds to check for hardlockups. If any CPU in the system same name) seconds to check for hardlockups. If any CPU in the system
does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the
@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the
generate a kernel warning or call panic, depending on the generate a kernel warning or call panic, depending on the
configuration. configuration.
The watchdog task is a high priority kernel thread that updates a The watchdog job runs in a stop scheduling thread that updates a
timestamp every time it is scheduled. If that timestamp is not updated timestamp every time it is scheduled. If that timestamp is not updated
for 2*watchdog_thresh seconds (the softlockup threshold) the for 2*watchdog_thresh seconds (the softlockup threshold) the
'softlockup detector' (coded inside the hrtimer callback function) 'softlockup detector' (coded inside the hrtimer callback function)