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 --- kernel/watchdog.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c') diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 18bb15776c57..054a67cca9da 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -48,12 +48,15 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, watchdog_ev); * Should we panic when a soft-lockup or hard-lockup occurs: */ #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR -static int hardlockup_panic; +static int hardlockup_panic = + CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE; static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str) { if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5)) hardlockup_panic = 1; + else if (!strncmp(str, "nopanic", 7)) + hardlockup_panic = 0; else if (!strncmp(str, "0", 1)) watchdog_enabled = 0; return 1; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b