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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 /Documentation/BUG-HUNTING | |
parent | b1b5f65e53af770ede22c113e249de2f6fa53706 (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>
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