kernel/watchdog.c: control hard lockup detection default

In some cases we don't want hard lockup detection enabled by default.
An example is when running as a guest.  Introduce

  watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(bool)

allowing those cases to disable hard lockup detection.  This must be
executed early by the boot processor from e.g.  smp_prepare_boot_cpu, in
order to allow kernel command line arguments to override it, as well as
to avoid hard lockup detection being enabled before we've had a chance
to indicate that it's unwanted.  In summary,

  initial boot:					default=enabled
  smp_prepare_boot_cpu
    watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(false):	default=disabled
  cmdline has 'nmi_watchdog=1':			default=enabled

The running kernel still has the ability to enable/disable at any time
with /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog us usual.  However even when the
default has been overridden /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog will initially
show '1'.  To truly turn it on one must disable/enable it, i.e.

  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

This patch will be immediately useful for KVM with the next patch of this
series.  Other hypervisor guest types may find it useful as well.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[dzickus@redhat.com: fix compile issues on sparc]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index 1d2a6ab6b8b..9b2022ab4d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ static inline void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)
 }
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR)
+extern void watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(bool val);
+extern bool watchdog_hardlockup_detector_is_enabled(void);
+#else
+static inline void watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(bool val)
+{
+}
+static inline bool watchdog_hardlockup_detector_is_enabled(void)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Create trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() out of the arch-provided
  * base function. Return whether such support was available,