[patch 060/104] WATCHDOG: hpwdt: Fix kdump when using hpwdt

Greg KH
2008-12-03T20:13:36Z

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2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>

commit 290172e79036fc25a22aaf3da4835ee634886183 upstream.

When the "hpwdt" module is loaded (even if the /dev/watchdog device is not
opened), then kdump does not work. The panic kernel either does not start at
all or crash in various places.

The problem is that hpwdt_pretimeout is registered with register_die_notifier()
with the highest possible priority. Because it returns NOTIFY_STOP, the
crash_nmi_callback which is also registered with register_die_notifier()
is never executed. This causes the shutdown of other CPUs to fail.

Reverting the order is no option: The crash_nmi_callback executes HLT
and so never returns normally. Because of that, it must be executed as
last notifier, which currently is done.

So, that patch returns NOTIFY_OK to keep the crash_nmi_callback executed.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int hpwdt_pretimeout(struct notif
"Management Log for details.\n");
}

- return NOTIFY_STOP;
+ return NOTIFY_OK;
}

/*