[PATCH] IPMI: watchdog handle panic properly
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>
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
index 8f88671..1a0a19c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
@@ -949,9 +949,10 @@
/* 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;
@@ -973,16 +974,17 @@
{
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();
}