watchdog: pretimeout: add panic pretimeout governor

The change adds panic watchdog pretimeout governor, on watchdog
pretimeout event the kernel shall panic. In general watchdog
pretimeout event means that something essentially bad is going on the
system, for example a process scheduler stalls or watchdog feeder is
killed due to OOM, so printing out information attendant to panic and
before likely unavoidable reboot caused by a watchdog may help to
determine a root cause of the issue.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Vladimir Zapolskiy
2016-10-08 10:27:17 +02:00
committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
parent f77710c4cd
commit da0d12ff2b
5 changed files with 66 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ watchdog-objs += watchdog_core.o watchdog_dev.o
watchdog-$(CONFIG_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV) += watchdog_pretimeout.o
obj-$(CONFIG_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_NOOP) += pretimeout_noop.o
obj-$(CONFIG_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_PANIC) += pretimeout_panic.o
# Only one watchdog can succeed. We probe the ISA/PCI/USB based
# watchdog-cards first, then the architecture specific watchdog