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[PATCH] IPMI: watchdog handle panic properly
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Modify the watchdog timeout in IPMI to only do things at panic/reboot time if
the watchdog timer was already running.  Some BIOSes do not disable the
watchdog timer at startup, and this led to a reboot a while later if the new
OS running didn't start monitoring the watchdog, even if the watchdog was not
running before.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Corey Minyard authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jun 28, 2006
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18 changes: 10 additions & 8 deletions drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
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Expand Up @@ -949,9 +949,10 @@ static int wdog_reboot_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
/* Disable the WDT if we are shutting down. */
ipmi_watchdog_state = WDOG_TIMEOUT_NONE;
panic_halt_ipmi_set_timeout();
} else {
} else if (ipmi_watchdog_state != WDOG_TIMEOUT_NONE) {
/* Set a long timer to let the reboot happens, but
reboot if it hangs. */
reboot if it hangs, but only if the watchdog
timer was already running. */
timeout = 120;
pretimeout = 0;
ipmi_watchdog_state = WDOG_TIMEOUT_RESET;
Expand All @@ -973,16 +974,17 @@ static int wdog_panic_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
{
static int panic_event_handled = 0;

/* On a panic, if we have a panic timeout, make sure that the thing
reboots, even if it hangs during that panic. */
if (watchdog_user && !panic_event_handled) {
/* Make sure the panic doesn't hang, and make sure we
do this only once. */
/* On a panic, if we have a panic timeout, make sure to extend
the watchdog timer to a reasonable value to complete the
panic, if the watchdog timer is running. Plus the
pretimeout is meaningless at panic time. */
if (watchdog_user && !panic_event_handled &&
ipmi_watchdog_state != WDOG_TIMEOUT_NONE) {
/* Make sure we do this only once. */
panic_event_handled = 1;

timeout = 255;
pretimeout = 0;
ipmi_watchdog_state = WDOG_TIMEOUT_RESET;
panic_halt_ipmi_set_timeout();
}

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