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authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:44:12 -0700
commitfef2c9bc1b54c0261324a96e948c0b849796e896 (patch)
treea4dd2733621d9fe1f8ec65d9ef30867ed09b640f /lib
parentb1b5f65e53af770ede22c113e249de2f6fa53706 (diff)
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 <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 191c5c4c89f..fb0afeff943 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -171,6 +171,23 @@ config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
!ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
+config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
+ bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
+ depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
+ help
+ Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
+ which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
+ mode with interrupts disabled for more than 60 seconds.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
+config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE
+ int
+ depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR
+ range 0 1
+ default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
+ default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
+
config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups"
depends on LOCKUP_DETECTOR