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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/watchdog.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 18bb15776c5..140dce75045 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; @@ -415,19 +418,22 @@ static int watchdog_prepare_cpu(int cpu) static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) { struct task_struct *p = per_cpu(softlockup_watchdog, cpu); - int err; + int err = 0; /* enable the perf event */ err = watchdog_nmi_enable(cpu); - if (err) - return err; + + /* Regardless of err above, fall through and start softlockup */ /* create the watchdog thread */ if (!p) { p = kthread_create(watchdog, (void *)(unsigned long)cpu, "watchdog/%d", cpu); if (IS_ERR(p)) { printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu); - return PTR_ERR(p); + if (!err) + /* if hardlockup hasn't already set this */ + err = PTR_ERR(p); + goto out; } kthread_bind(p, cpu); per_cpu(watchdog_touch_ts, cpu) = 0; @@ -435,7 +441,8 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) wake_up_process(p); } - return 0; +out: + return err; } static void watchdog_disable(int cpu) @@ -547,7 +554,13 @@ cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) break; #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */ } - return notifier_from_errno(err); + + /* + * hardlockup and softlockup are not important enough + * to block cpu bring up. Just always succeed and + * rely on printk output to flag problems. + */ + return NOTIFY_OK; } static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata cpu_nfb = { |