[RFC PATCH 22/23] watchdog/hardlockup/hpet: Only enable the HPET watchdog via a boot parameter

[Ricardo Neri]

Keep the HPET-based hardlockup detector disabled unless explicitly enabled
via a command line argument. If such parameter is not given, the hardlockup
detector will fallback to use the perf-based implementation.

The function hardlockup_panic_setup() is updated to return 0 in order to
to allow __setup functions of specific hardlockup detectors (in this case
hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup()) to inspect the nmi_watchdog boot
parameter.

Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj at intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen at intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan at intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic at kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast at kernel.org>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger at oracle.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne at nexb.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park at lge.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman at redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave at stgolabs.net>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Cc: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar at intel.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Cc: iommu at lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon at linux.intel.com>
--
checkpatch gives the following warning:

CHECK: __setup appears un-documented -- check Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+__setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup);

This is a false-positive as the option nmi_watchdog is already
documented. The option is re-evaluated in this file as well.
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  5 ++++-
 kernel/watchdog.c                               |  2 +-
 kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c                      | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index f2040d4..a8833c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2577,7 +2577,7 @@
 			Format: [state][,regs][,debounce][,die]
 
 	nmi_watchdog=	[KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
-			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
+			Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num,][hpet]
 			Valid num: 0 or 1
 			0 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off
 			1 - turn hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog on
@@ -2587,6 +2587,9 @@
 			please see 'nowatchdog'.
 			This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and
 			need the box quickly up again.
+			When hpet is specified, the NMI watchdog will be driven
+			by an HPET timer, if available in the system. Otherwise,
+			the perf-based implementation will be used.
 
 			These settings can be accessed at runtime via
 			the nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic sysctls.
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index b94bbe3..b5ce6e4 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int __init hardlockup_panic_setup(char *str)
 		nmi_watchdog_user_enabled = 0;
 	else if (!strncmp(str, "1", 1))
 		nmi_watchdog_user_enabled = 1;
-	return 1;
+	return 0;
 }
 __setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_panic_setup);
 
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c b/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
index ebb820d..12e5937 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_hld_hpet.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI hpet watchdog: " fmt
 
 static struct hpet_hld_data *hld_data;
+static bool hardlockup_use_hpet;
 
 /**
  * get_count() - Get the current count of the HPET timer
@@ -488,6 +489,15 @@ static void hardlockup_detector_hpet_stop(void)
 	spin_unlock(&hld_data->lock);
 }
 
+static int __init hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup(char *str)
+{
+	if (strstr(str, "hpet"))
+		hardlockup_use_hpet = true;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+__setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_detector_hpet_setup);
+
 /**
  * hardlockup_detector_hpet_init() - Initialize the hardlockup detector
  *
@@ -502,6 +512,9 @@ static int __init hardlockup_detector_hpet_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!hardlockup_use_hpet)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (!is_hpet_enabled())
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-- 
2.7.4