[RFC PATCH 4/4] watchdog: hpwdt: Make panic behaviour configurable

From: Ivan Mironov
Date: Sun Jan 13 2019 - 21:36:58 EST


This adds an option to not panic on NMI even if it was caused by iLO.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Mironov <mironov.ivan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
index 95d002b5b120..b12858491189 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ static unsigned int soft_margin = DEFAULT_MARGIN; /* in seconds */
static bool nowayout = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT;
static bool pretimeout = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING);

+#ifdef CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING
+static bool panic_on_nmi = true;
+#endif /* CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING */
+
static void __iomem *pci_mem_addr; /* the PCI-memory address */
static unsigned long __iomem *hpwdt_nmistat;
static unsigned long __iomem *hpwdt_timer_reg;
@@ -146,7 +150,10 @@ static int hpwdt_set_pretimeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd, unsigned int req)

static int hpwdt_my_nmi(void)
{
- return ioread8(hpwdt_nmistat) & 0x6;
+ int nmistat = ioread8(hpwdt_nmistat);
+
+ iowrite8(nmistat & ~0x6, hpwdt_nmistat);
+ return nmistat & 0x6;
}

/*
@@ -168,7 +175,10 @@ static int hpwdt_pretimeout(unsigned int ulReason, struct pt_regs *regs)
"4. iLO Event Log\n",
mynmi, ulReason, smp_processor_id());

- nmi_panic(regs, "hpwdt: NMI: Not continuing");
+ if (panic_on_nmi)
+ nmi_panic(regs, "hpwdt: NMI: Not continuing");
+
+ pr_emerg("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n");

return NMI_HANDLED;
}
@@ -376,6 +386,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(nowayout, "Watchdog cannot be stopped once started (default="
#ifdef CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING
module_param(pretimeout, bool, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(pretimeout, "Watchdog pretimeout enabled");
-#endif
+
+module_param(panic_on_nmi, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(panic_on_nmi, "Cause panic on NMI induced by iLO (default=1)");
+#endif /* CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING */

module_pci_driver(hpwdt_driver);
--
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