2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Bernhard Walle commit 290172e79036fc25a22aaf3da4835ee634886183 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int hpwdt_pretimeout(struct notif "Management Log for details.\n"); } - return NOTIFY_STOP; + return NOTIFY_OK; } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/