On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Don Zickus wrote:
> 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 <dzic...@redhat.com>
Seems like with my previous stack-dumping patch + this one, we are finally
covering all the possible combinations. Hence in principle
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz>
The build failure reported by Fengguang's bot of course needs to be fixed,
but I think it's there for soft lockup detector as well, but Fengguang's
.config has soft lockup detector enable, so that failure is invisible.
I guess the most straightfoward fix is to ...
[ ... snip ... ]
> index b7b9501..5e65b14 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ extern int proc_dowatchdog_thresh(struct ctl_table
> *table, int write,
> void __user *buffer,
> size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
> extern unsigned int softlockup_panic;
> +extern unsigned int hardlockup_panic;
... those two be there only if appropriate config options are set.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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