Re: [PATCH v2] panic: Make panic_timeout configurable

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:02:11AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:04:36PM +0000, Jason Baron wrote:
> 
> > The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option 'panic=x', or via
> > /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not sufficient when the panic occurs
> > before we are able to set up these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT
> > so that we can set the desired value from the .config.
> > 
> > The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait forever, except for
> > powerpc and mips, which have been defaulted to 180 and 5 respectively. This
> > is in keeping with the fact that these arches already set panic_timeout in
> > their arch init code. However, I found three exceptions- two in mips and one in
> > powerpc where the settings didn't match these default values. In those cases, I
> > left the arch code so it continues to override, in case the user has not changed
> > from the default. It would nice if these arches had one default value, or if we
> > could determine the correct setting at compile-time.
> 
> It's more complicated - MIPS was using the global default with five MIPS
> platforms overriding the default.
> 
> I propose to kill these overrides for sanity unless somebody comes up
> with a good argument.  Patch below.
> 
>   Ralf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>  arch/mips/ar7/setup.c           | 1 -
>  arch/mips/emma/markeins/setup.c | 3 ---
>  arch/mips/netlogic/xlp/setup.c  | 1 -
>  arch/mips/netlogic/xlr/setup.c  | 1 -
>  arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/setup.c  | 2 --
>  5 files changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/ar7/setup.c b/arch/mips/ar7/setup.c
> index 9a357ff..820b7a3 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/ar7/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/ar7/setup.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ void __init plat_mem_setup(void)
>  	_machine_restart = ar7_machine_restart;
>  	_machine_halt = ar7_machine_halt;
>  	pm_power_off = ar7_machine_power_off;
> -	panic_timeout = 3;
>  
>  	io_base = (unsigned long)ioremap(AR7_REGS_BASE, 0x10000);
>  	if (!io_base)
> diff --git a/arch/mips/emma/markeins/setup.c b/arch/mips/emma/markeins/setup.c
> index d710058..9100122 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/emma/markeins/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/emma/markeins/setup.c
> @@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ void __init plat_mem_setup(void)
>  	iomem_resource.start = EMMA2RH_IO_BASE;
>  	iomem_resource.end = EMMA2RH_ROM_BASE - 1;
>  
> -	/* Reboot on panic */
> -	panic_timeout = 180;
> -
>  	markeins_sio_setup();
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arch/mips/netlogic/xlp/setup.c b/arch/mips/netlogic/xlp/setup.c
> index 6d981bb..54e75c7 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/netlogic/xlp/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/netlogic/xlp/setup.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ static void __init xlp_init_mem_from_bars(void)
>  
>  void __init plat_mem_setup(void)
>  {
> -	panic_timeout	= 5;
>  	_machine_restart = (void (*)(char *))nlm_linux_exit;
>  	_machine_halt	= nlm_linux_exit;
>  	pm_power_off	= nlm_linux_exit;
> diff --git a/arch/mips/netlogic/xlr/setup.c b/arch/mips/netlogic/xlr/setup.c
> index 214d123..921be5f 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/netlogic/xlr/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/netlogic/xlr/setup.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ static void nlm_linux_exit(void)
>  
>  void __init plat_mem_setup(void)
>  {
> -	panic_timeout	= 5;
>  	_machine_restart = (void (*)(char *))nlm_linux_exit;
>  	_machine_halt	= nlm_linux_exit;
>  	pm_power_off	= nlm_linux_exit;
> diff --git a/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/setup.c b/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/setup.c
> index 41707a2..3462c83 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/setup.c
> @@ -134,8 +134,6 @@ void __init plat_mem_setup(void)
>  #error invalid SiByte board configuration
>  #endif
>  
> -	panic_timeout = 5;  /* For debug.  */
> -
>  	board_be_handler = swarm_be_handler;
>  
>  	if (xicor_probe())


Acked-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

For the arch/mips/netlogic changes, thanks for fixing this.

JC.



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