Keep the HPET-based hardlockup detector disabled unless explicitly enabled
via a command-line argument. If such parameter is not given, the
initialization of the hpet-based hardlockup detector fails and the NMI
watchdog will fallback to use the perf-based implementation.
Given that __setup("nmi_watchdog=") is already used to control the behavior
of the NMI watchdog (via hardlockup_panic_setup()), it cannot be used to
control of the hpet-based implementation. Instead, use a new
early_param("nmi_watchdog").
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashok Raj <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Cc: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Nayna Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <[email protected]>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
--
checkpatch gives the following warning:
CHECK: __setup appears un-documented -- check
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+__setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup);
This is a false-positive as the option nmi_watchdog is already
documented. The option is re-evaluated in this file as well.
---
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 138f6664b2e2..17ed3dcda13e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@
Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
- Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
+ Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num,][hpet]
Valid num: 0 or 1
0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
@@ -2841,6 +2841,12 @@
please see 'nowatchdog'.
This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
need the box quickly up again.
+ When hpet is specified, the NMI watchdog will be driven
+ by an HPET timer, if available in the system. Otherwise,
+ it falls back to the default implementation (perf or
+ architecture-specific). Specifying hpet has no effect
+ if the NMI watchdog is not enabled (either at build time
+ or via the command line).
These settings can be accessed at runtime via
the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
b/arch/x86/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
index dcc50cd29374..76eed714a1cb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
@@ -351,6 +351,28 @@ void hardlockup_detector_hpet_stop(void)
disable_timer(hld_data);
}
+/**
+ * hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup() - Parse command-line parameters
+ * @str: A string containing the kernel command line
+ *
+ * Parse the nmi_watchdog parameter from the kernel command line. If
+ * selected by the user, use this implementation to detect hardlockups.
+ */
+static int __init hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup(char *str)
+{
+ if (!str)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (parse_option_str(str, "hpet"))
+ hardlockup_use_hpet = true;
+
+ if (!nmi_watchdog_user_enabled && hardlockup_use_hpet)
+ pr_warn("Selecting HPET NMI watchdog has no effect with NMI
watchdog disabled\n");
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("nmi_watchdog", hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup);
+
/**
* hardlockup_detector_hpet_init() - Initialize the hardlockup detector
*
--
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