[PATCH v4 2/2] drivers: watchdog: Add support for panic notifier callback

[Guenter Roeck]

On 3/5/25 02:33, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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?
> 

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Guenter