From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:55 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] IPMI: watchdog handle panic properly
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~441
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[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 8f88671709..1a0a19c536 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
@@ -949,9 +949,10 @@ static int wdog_reboot_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
 			/* 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 wdog_panic_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
 {
 	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();
 	}