NMI: watchdog timeout command line parameter

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

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Here is a patch which allows a command line parameter to set the
watchdog timeout.

-- 
Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com


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# HG changeset patch
# Parent e193375fb82af819eb55a1189308fcd4c1e8b40f
NMI: Command line parameter for watchdog timeout

Introduce a command parameter to set the watchtog timeout.  Manually specifying
"watchdog_timeout=<seconds>" on the command line will also turn the watchdog
on.  For consistency, move opt_watchdog into nmi.c along with
opt_watchdog_timeout.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

diff -r e193375fb82a docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
@@ -391,7 +391,17 @@ The optional `keep` parameter causes Xen
 ### watchdog
 > `= <boolean>`
 
-Run an NMI watchdog on each processor.  Defaults to disabled.
+> Default: `false`
+
+Run an NMI watchdog on each processor.  If a processor is stuck for longer than the watchdog\_timeout, a panic occurs.
+
+### watchdog\_timeout
+> `= <integer>`
+
+> Default: `5`
+
+Set the NMI watchdog timeout in seconds.  Specifying `0` will turn off the watchdog.
+
 ### x2apic
 ### x2apic\_phys
 ### xencons
diff -r e193375fb82a xen/arch/x86/nmi.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/nmi.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/nmi.c
@@ -40,6 +40,19 @@ static unsigned int nmi_p4_cccr_val;
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct timer, nmi_timer);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, nmi_timer_ticks);
 
+/* opt_watchdog: If true, run a watchdog NMI on each processor. */
+bool_t __initdata opt_watchdog = 0;
+boolean_param("watchdog", opt_watchdog);
+
+/* opt_watchdog_timeout: Number of seconds to wait before panic. */
+static unsigned int opt_watchdog_timeout = 5;
+static void parse_watchdog_timeout(char * s)
+{
+    opt_watchdog_timeout = simple_strtoull(s, NULL, 0);
+    opt_watchdog = !!opt_watchdog_timeout;
+}
+custom_param("watchdog_timeout", parse_watchdog_timeout);
+
 /*
  * lapic_nmi_owner tracks the ownership of the lapic NMI hardware:
  * - it may be reserved by some other driver, or not
@@ -425,11 +438,11 @@ void nmi_watchdog_tick(struct cpu_user_r
          !atomic_read(&watchdog_disable_count) )
     {
         /*
-         * Ayiee, looks like this CPU is stuck ... wait a few IRQs (5 seconds) 
+         * Ayiee, looks like this CPU is stuck ... wait for the timeout
          * before doing the oops ...
          */
         this_cpu(alert_counter)++;
-        if ( this_cpu(alert_counter) == 5*nmi_hz )
+        if ( this_cpu(alert_counter) == opt_watchdog_timeout*nmi_hz )
         {
             console_force_unlock();
             printk("Watchdog timer detects that CPU%d is stuck!\n",
diff -r e193375fb82a xen/arch/x86/setup.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include <asm/mach-generic/mach_apic.h> /* for generic_apic_probe */
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include <xen/cpu.h>
+#include <asm/nmi.h>
 
 /* opt_nosmp: If true, secondary processors are ignored. */
 static bool_t __initdata opt_nosmp;
@@ -54,10 +55,6 @@ boolean_param("nosmp", opt_nosmp);
 static unsigned int __initdata max_cpus;
 integer_param("maxcpus", max_cpus);
 
-/* opt_watchdog: If true, run a watchdog NMI on each processor. */
-static bool_t __initdata opt_watchdog;
-boolean_param("watchdog", opt_watchdog);
-
 /* smep: Enable/disable Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (default on). */
 static bool_t __initdata disable_smep;
 invbool_param("smep", disable_smep);
diff -r e193375fb82a xen/include/asm-x86/nmi.h
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/nmi.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/nmi.h
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 #include <public/nmi.h>
 
 struct cpu_user_regs;
+
+/* Watchdog boolean from the command line */
+extern bool_t opt_watchdog;
  
 typedef int (*nmi_callback_t)(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, int cpu);
  

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