On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 10:10:25AM +0000, George Cherian wrote: > Watchdog is not turned off in kernel panic situation. > In certain systems this might prevent the successful loading > of kdump kernel. The kdump kernel might hit a watchdog reset > while it is booting. > > To avoid such scenarios add a panic notifier call back function > which can stop the watchdog. This provision can be enabled by > passing watchdog.stop_on_panic=1 via kernel command-line parameter. ... First of all, do we really need a new module parameter for that? Why can't it be done automatically if kdump is expected? > +static bool stop_on_panic; > +module_param(stop_on_panic, bool, 0444); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(stop_on_panic, "Stop watchdogs on panic (0=keep watching, 1=stop)"); + blank line. Also I do not see the documentation update. Where is it lost? > /* -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
