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| author | Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> | 2011-03-22 16:34:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-03-22 17:44:12 -0700 |
| commit | fef2c9bc1b54c0261324a96e948c0b849796e896 (patch) | |
| tree | a4dd2733621d9fe1f8ec65d9ef30867ed09b640f /lib | |
| parent | b1b5f65e53af770ede22c113e249de2f6fa53706 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-fef2c9bc1b54c0261324a96e948c0b849796e896.tar.gz lwn-fef2c9bc1b54c0261324a96e948c0b849796e896.zip | |
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.debug | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 191c5c4c89fc..fb0afeff9436 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 |