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authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>2015-11-05 18:44:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800
commitac1f591249d95372f3a5ab3828d4af5dfbf5efd3 (patch)
tree39dfce1a0fc12de79689cd97e2876ddf777c8cab /Documentation
parent55537871ef666b4153fd1ef8782e4a13fee142cc (diff)
kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic
The only way to enable a hardlockup to panic the machine is to set 'nmi_watchdog=panic' on the kernel command line. This makes it awkward for end users and folks who want to run automate tests (like myself). Mimic the softlockup_panic knob and create a /proc/sys/kernel/hardlockup_panic knob. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt b/Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt
index 22dd6af2e4bd..4a6e33e1af61 100644
--- a/Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ kernel mode for more than 10 seconds (see "Implementation" below for
details), without letting other interrupts have a chance to run.
Similarly to the softlockup case, the current stack trace is displayed
upon detection and the system will stay locked up unless the default
-behavior is changed, which can be done through a compile time knob,
-"BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC", and a kernel parameter, "nmi_watchdog"
+behavior is changed, which can be done through a sysctl,
+'hardlockup_panic', a compile time knob, "BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC",
+and a kernel parameter, "nmi_watchdog"
(see "Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt" for details).
The panic option can be used in combination with panic_timeout (this