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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/watchdog.c | 50 |
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index ff7fd80bef99..49e9537f3673 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -59,6 +59,25 @@ static unsigned long soft_lockup_nmi_warn; static int hardlockup_panic = CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE; +static bool hardlockup_detector_enabled = true; +/* + * We may not want to enable hard lockup detection by default in all cases, + * for example when running the kernel as a guest on a hypervisor. In these + * cases this function can be called to disable hard lockup detection. This + * function should only be executed once by the boot processor before the + * kernel command line parameters are parsed, because otherwise it is not + * possible to override this in hardlockup_panic_setup(). + */ +void watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(bool val) +{ + hardlockup_detector_enabled = val; +} + +bool watchdog_hardlockup_detector_is_enabled(void) +{ + return hardlockup_detector_enabled; +} + static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str) { if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5)) @@ -67,6 +86,14 @@ static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str) hardlockup_panic = 0; else if (!strncmp(str, "0", 1)) watchdog_user_enabled = 0; + else if (!strncmp(str, "1", 1) || !strncmp(str, "2", 1)) { + /* + * Setting 'nmi_watchdog=1' or 'nmi_watchdog=2' (legacy option) + * has the same effect. + */ + watchdog_user_enabled = 1; + watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(true); + } return 1; } __setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_panic_setup); @@ -465,6 +492,15 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu) struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr; struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu); + /* + * Some kernels need to default hard lockup detection to + * 'disabled', for example a guest on a hypervisor. + */ + if (!watchdog_hardlockup_detector_is_enabled()) { + event = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + goto handle_err; + } + /* is it already setup and enabled? */ if (event && event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) goto out; @@ -479,6 +515,7 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu) /* Try to register using hardware perf events */ event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL); +handle_err: /* save cpu0 error for future comparision */ if (cpu == 0 && IS_ERR(event)) cpu0_err = PTR_ERR(event); @@ -624,11 +661,13 @@ int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { int err, old_thresh, old_enabled; + bool old_hardlockup; static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_proc_mutex); mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); old_thresh = ACCESS_ONCE(watchdog_thresh); old_enabled = ACCESS_ONCE(watchdog_user_enabled); + old_hardlockup = watchdog_hardlockup_detector_is_enabled(); err = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (err || !write) @@ -640,15 +679,22 @@ int proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *table, int write, * disabled. The 'watchdog_running' variable check in * watchdog_*_all_cpus() function takes care of this. */ - if (watchdog_user_enabled && watchdog_thresh) + if (watchdog_user_enabled && watchdog_thresh) { + /* + * Prevent a change in watchdog_thresh accidentally overriding + * the enablement of the hardlockup detector. + */ + if (watchdog_user_enabled != old_enabled) + watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(true); err = watchdog_enable_all_cpus(old_thresh != watchdog_thresh); - else + } else watchdog_disable_all_cpus(); /* Restore old values on failure */ if (err) { watchdog_thresh = old_thresh; watchdog_user_enabled = old_enabled; + watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(old_hardlockup); } out: mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); |