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| author | Tom Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com> | 2009-06-18 23:28:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> | 2009-06-23 07:13:45 +0000 |
| commit | 44df75353bc8f32e26e049284053a61d4f1047d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ac01af7888c6d5c3746d30834fd63a148305078 /drivers | |
| parent | 789cd4702bf830416d2e1794495407be42fe95ad (diff) | |
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[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI priority option
Add a priority option so that the user can choose if we do the NMI
first or last.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c index c0b9169ba5d5..a6c5674c78e6 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c @@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ static int nowayout = WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT; static char expect_release; static unsigned long hpwdt_is_open; static unsigned int allow_kdump; -static int hpwdt_nmi_sourcing; +static unsigned int hpwdt_nmi_sourcing; +static unsigned int priority; /* hpwdt at end of die_notify list */ static void __iomem *pci_mem_addr; /* the PCI-memory address */ static unsigned long __iomem *hpwdt_timer_reg; @@ -623,7 +624,7 @@ static struct miscdevice hpwdt_miscdev = { static struct notifier_block die_notifier = { .notifier_call = hpwdt_pretimeout, - .priority = 0x7FFFFFFF, + .priority = 0, }; /* @@ -641,7 +642,8 @@ static void __devinit hpwdt_check_nmi_sourcing(struct pci_dev *dev) hpwdt_nmi_sourcing = 1; else dev_warn(&dev->dev, "NMI sourcing is disabled. To enable this " - "functionality you must reboot with nmi_watchdog=0.\n"); + "functionality you must reboot with nmi_watchdog=0 " + "and load the hpwdt driver with priority=1.\n"); } #else static void __devinit hpwdt_check_nmi_sourcing(struct pci_dev *dev) @@ -714,6 +716,14 @@ static int __devinit hpwdt_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev, cmn_regs.u1.rah = 0x0D; cmn_regs.u1.ral = 0x02; + /* + * If the priority is set to 1, then we will be put first on the + * die notify list to handle a critical NMI. The default is to + * be last so other users of the NMI signal can function. + */ + if (priority) + die_notifier.priority = 0x7FFFFFFF; + retval = register_die_notifier(&die_notifier); if (retval != 0) { dev_warn(&dev->dev, @@ -733,9 +743,11 @@ static int __devinit hpwdt_init_one(struct pci_dev *dev, printk(KERN_INFO "hp Watchdog Timer Driver: %s" ", timer margin: %d seconds (nowayout=%d)" - ", allow kernel dump: %s (default = 0/OFF).\n", + ", allow kernel dump: %s (default = 0/OFF)" + ", priority: %s (default = 0/LAST).\n", HPWDT_VERSION, soft_margin, nowayout, - (allow_kdump == 0) ? "OFF" : "ON"); + (allow_kdump == 0) ? "OFF" : "ON", + (priority == 0) ? "LAST" : "FIRST"); return 0; @@ -798,5 +810,9 @@ module_param(nowayout, int, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(nowayout, "Watchdog cannot be stopped once started (default=" __MODULE_STRING(WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT) ")"); +module_param(priority, int, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(priority, "The hpwdt driver handles NMIs first or last" + " (default = 0/Last)\n"); + module_init(hpwdt_init); module_exit(hpwdt_cleanup); |