tree 7fad86166df0b4d8c8c039f72d4af12cf86bb17b
parent 3f9d51333129e16d77dcc9414bd548151d884c8a
author Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> 1582458579 +0000
committer Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> 1584526524 +0100

watchdog: Add stop_on_reboot parameter to control reboot policy

Many watchdog drivers use watchdog_stop_on_reboot() helper in order
to stop the watchdog on system reboot. Unfortunately, this logic is
coded in driver's probe function and doesn't allows user to decide what
to do during shutdown/reboot.

On the other side, Xen and Qemu watchdog drivers (xen_wdt and i6300esb)
may be configured to either send NMI or turn off/reboot VM as
the watchdog action. As the kernel may stuck at any state, sending NMIs
can't reliably reboot the VM.

At Arista, we benefited from the following set-up: the emulated watchdogs
trigger VM reset and softdog is set to catch less severe conditions to
generate vmcore. Just before reboot watchdog's timeout is increased
to some good-enough value (3 mins). That keeps watchdog always running
and guarantees that VM doesn't stuck.

Provide new stop_on_reboot module parameter to let user control
watchdog's reboot policy.

Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200223114939.194754-1-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>