Re: [WATCHDOG] v2.6.28 watchdog fixes

From: Stephen Clark
Date: Mon Dec 01 2008 - 11:36:23 EST

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Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:

Hi Linus,

Please pull from 'master' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git
or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git

This will update the following files:

drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 5 -
drivers/watchdog/iTCO_vendor_support.c | 31 ------
drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c | 4 4 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)

with these Changes:

Author: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Oct 26 15:59:37 2008 +0100

[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Fix kdump when using hpwdt
When the "hpwdt" module is loaded (even if the /dev/watchdog device is not
opened), then kdump does not work. The panic kernel either does not start at
all or crash in various places.
The problem is that hpwdt_pretimeout is registered with register_die_notifier()
with the highest possible priority. Because it returns NOTIFY_STOP, the
crash_nmi_callback which is also registered with register_die_notifier()
is never executed. This causes the shutdown of other CPUs to fail.
Reverting the order is no option: The crash_nmi_callback executes HLT
and so never returns normally. Because of that, it must be executed as
last notifier, which currently is done.
So, that patch returns NOTIFY_OK to keep the crash_nmi_callback executed.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@xxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Author: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Nov 14 15:47:03 2008 +0100

[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: set the mapped BIOS address space as executable
The address provided by the SMBIOS/DMI CRU information is mapped via
ioremap() in the virtual address space. However, since the address is
executed (i.e. call'd), we need to set that pages as executable.
Without that, I get following oops on a HP ProLiant DL385 G2
machine with BIOS from 05/29/2008 when I trigger crashdump:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc20011090c00
IP: [<ffffc20011090c00>] 0xffffc20011090c00
PGD 12f813067 PUD 7fe6a067 PMD 7effe067 PTE 80000000fffd3173
Oops: 0011 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
CPU 1
Modules linked in: autofs4 ipv6 af_packet cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace
cpufreq_powersave powernow_k8 fuse loop dm_mod rtc_cmos ipmi_si sg rtc_core i2c
_piix4 ipmi_msghandler bnx2 sr_mod container button i2c_core hpilo joydev pcspkr
rtc_lib shpchp hpwdt cdrom pci_hotplug usbhid hid ff_memless ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
uhci_hcd usbcore edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ide_pci_generic serverworks ide_core p
ata_serverworks pata_acpi cciss ata_generic libata scsi_mod dock thermal process
or thermal_sys hwmon
Supported: Yes
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27.5-HEAD_20081111100657-default #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffc20011090c00>] [<ffffc20011090c00>] 0xffffc20011090c00
RSP: 0018:ffff88012f6f9e68 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000d02 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88012f6f9e98 R08: 666666666666660a R09: ffffffffa1006fc0
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88012f6f3ea8 R12: ffffc20011090c00
R13: ffff88012f6f9ee8 R14: 000000000000000e R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007ff70b29a6f0(0000) GS:ffff88012f6512c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffffc20011090c00 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88012f6f2000, task ffff88007fa8a1c0)
Stack: ffffffffa0f8502b 0000000000000002 ffffffff80738d50 0000000000000000
0000000000000046 0000000000000046 00000000fffffffe ffffffffa0f852ec
0000000000000000 ffffffff804ad9a6 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
Inexact backtrace:
<NMI> [<ffffffffa0f8502b>] ? asminline_call+0x2b/0x55 [hpwdt]
[<ffffffffa0f852ec>] hpwdt_pretimeout+0x3c/0xa0 [hpwdt]
[<ffffffff804ad9a6>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x29/0x4c
[<ffffffff802587e4>] ? notify_die+0x2d/0x32
[<ffffffff804abbdc>] ? default_do_nmi+0x53/0x1d9
[<ffffffff804abd90>] ? do_nmi+0x2e/0x43
[<ffffffff804ab552>] ? nmi+0xa2/0xd0
[<ffffffff80221ef9>] ? native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
<<EOE>> [<ffffffff8021345d>] ? default_idle+0x38/0x54
[<ffffffff8021359a>] ? c1e_idle+0x118/0x11c
[<ffffffff8020b3b5>] ? cpu_idle+0xa9/0xf1
Code: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff <55> 50 e8 00 00 00 00 58 48 2d 07 10 40 00 48 8b e8 58 e9 68 02
RIP [<ffffc20011090c00>] 0xffffc20011090c00
RSP <ffff88012f6f9e68>
CR2: ffffc20011090c00
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <Thomas.Mingarelli@xxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 19 22:25:53 2008 +0000

[WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt: add PCI ID's for ICH9 & ICH10 chipsets
Add support for the following I/O controller hubs:
ICH7DH, ICH9M, ICH9M-E, ICH10, ICH10R, ICH10D and ICH10DO.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>

Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 19 20:02:02 2008 +0000

[WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt : correct status clearing
The iTCO_wdt code was not clearing the correct bits.
It now clears the timeout status bit and then the
SECOND_TO_STS bit and then the BOOT_STS bit.
Note: we should first clear the SECOND_TO_STS bit
before clearing the BOOT_STS bit.
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>

Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 19 19:39:58 2008 +0000

[WATCHDOG] iTCO_wdt : problem with rebooting on new ICH9 based motherboards
Bugzilla #9868: On Intel motherboards with the ICH9 based I/O controllers
(Like DP35DP and DG33FB) the iTCO timer counts but it doesn't reboot the
system after the counter expires.

Thanks Wim,

can't wait to try this on my DG33FB, now if I could only get WOL to work
on the integrated NIC, life would be fine.
<..big snip..>

Regards,
Steve

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