[PATCH] watchdog: Force console verbose when reporting lockups
From: Tzung-Bi Shih
Date: Wed Oct 07 2026 - 01:18:35 EST
When a hard or soft lockup is detected, the watchdog prints a header at
KERN_EMERG (<0>), followed by diagnostic details (modules, registers,
and backtraces) at KERN_WARNING/KERN_DEFAULT (<4>) and KERN_INFO (<6>).
If console_loglevel is quiet (<= 4), the console skips those <4>/<6>
diagnostic messages before vpanic() has a chance to call
console_verbose(). With the buddy detector, this leaves only the
detector CPU's panic stack on the console and nothing about the locked
CPU:
<0>[ 1535.991833][ C6] watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 7
<0>[ 1535.995960][ C6] Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
<4>[ 1535.995970][ C6] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/6 ...
<4>[ 1535.995997][ C6] Call trace:
...
<4>[ 1535.996063][ C6] watchdog_hardlockup_check+0x1e0/0x288
<4>[ 1535.996075][ C6] watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup+0xb4/0xc0
Similar to commit 168e06f7937d ("kernel/hung_task.c: force console
verbose before panic"), call console_verbose() before printing the
lockup report so the diagnostic output is not suppressed.
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index e5134ad7b663..64da2e500144 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ void watchdog_hardlockup_check(unsigned int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
return;
}
+ if (hardlockup_panic)
+ console_verbose();
+
/*
* NOTE: we call printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() after printing
* the lockup message. While it would be nice to serialize
@@ -880,6 +883,10 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
/* Start period for the next softlockup warning. */
update_report_ts();
+ thresh_count = duration / get_softlockup_thresh();
+ if (softlockup_panic && thresh_count >= softlockup_panic)
+ console_verbose();
+
printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave(flags);
pr_emerg("BUG: soft lockup - CPU#%d stuck for %us! [%s:%d]\n",
smp_processor_id(), duration,
@@ -901,7 +908,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
add_taint(TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
sys_info(softlockup_si_mask & ~SYS_INFO_ALL_BT);
- thresh_count = duration / get_softlockup_thresh();
if (softlockup_panic && thresh_count >= softlockup_panic)
panic("softlockup: hung tasks");
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog