From: "sugaken.r3@gmail.com" <sugaken.r3@gmail.com>
To: wim@iguana.be
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:42:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7DC80B08BC13EBsugaken.r3@gmail.com> (raw)
>From Ken Sugawara <sugaken.r3@gmail.com>
Description: Add an option to softdog to panic upon timer expiration
instead of reboot.
Signed-off-by: Ken Sugawara <sugaken.r3@gmail.com>
---
This patch is intended to help increase the chance of postmortem
analysis in the event of silent system hang where it is impossible to
initiate crash dump manually (e.g. no console or network response).
We've had occasions where some of our customers had silent system hang
problems in which they were unable to obtain vmcore for root cause
analysis. Provided that timer interrupts are not blocked, this patch
might enable them to get a crash dump in such a situation by activating
softdog.
--- linux-2.6.22.9/drivers/char/watchdog/softdog.c.orig 2007-09-27 03:03:01.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.22.9/drivers/char/watchdog/softdog.c 2007-10-04 12:06:28.000000000 +0900
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
#define PFX "SoftDog: "
@@ -70,6 +71,11 @@ static int soft_noboot = 0;
module_param(soft_noboot, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(soft_noboot, "Softdog action, set to 1 to ignore reboots, 0 to reboot (default depends on ONLY_TESTING)");
+static int panic_instead = 0;
+
+module_param(panic_instead, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(panic_instead, "Softdog action, set to 1 to panic instead of reboot, 0 to reboot (default 0)");
+
/*
* Our timer
*/
@@ -93,8 +99,11 @@ static void watchdog_fire(unsigned long
if (soft_noboot)
printk(KERN_CRIT PFX "Triggered - Reboot ignored.\n");
- else
- {
+ else if (panic_instead) {
+ printk(KERN_CRIT PFX "Initiating panic.\n");
+ panic("Watchdog timer expired.");
+ printk(KERN_CRIT PFX "Panic didn't ?????\n");
+ } else {
printk(KERN_CRIT PFX "Initiating system reboot.\n");
emergency_restart();
printk(KERN_CRIT PFX "Reboot didn't ?????\n");
@@ -262,7 +271,7 @@ static struct notifier_block softdog_not
.notifier_call = softdog_notify_sys,
};
-static char banner[] __initdata = KERN_INFO "Software Watchdog Timer: 0.07 initialized. soft_noboot=%d soft_margin=%d sec (nowayout= %d)\n";
+static char banner[] __initdata = KERN_INFO "Software Watchdog Timer: 0.07 initialized. soft_noboot=%d soft_margin=%d sec panic_instead=%d (nowayout= %d)\n";
static int __init watchdog_init(void)
{
@@ -290,7 +299,7 @@ static int __init watchdog_init(void)
return ret;
}
- printk(banner, soft_noboot, soft_margin, nowayout);
+ printk(banner, soft_noboot, soft_margin, panic_instead, nowayout);
return 0;
}
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 6:42 sugaken.r3 [this message]
2007-10-10 12:15 ` [PATCH] softdog - panic instead of reboot, kernel 2.6.22.9 Alan Cox
2007-10-11 10:25 ` Ken Sugawara
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