From fef2c9bc1b54c0261324a96e948c0b849796e896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Zickus Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:34:16 -0700 Subject: kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by default When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a3b688287a8d..e9261e938f6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1597,11 +1597,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die] nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels - Format: [panic,][num] + Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num] Valid num: 0 0 - turn nmi_watchdog off When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog - timeout occurs. + timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite + default). This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box quickly up again. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b