watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails
authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Sat, 27 May 2023 01:41:31 +0000 (18:41 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:25:26 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
commit9ec272c586b07d1abf73438524bd12b1df9c5f9b
tree229c21afad0f66d0e27e02129126d77dbac1ba77
parenta94181ec064b3ad1b6f573f5953e2011f8c90292
watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails

Patch series "watchdog: Cleanup / fixes after buddy series v5 reviews".

This patch series attempts to finish resolving the feedback received
from Petr Mladek on the v5 series I posted.

Probably the only thing that wasn't fully as clean as Petr requested was
the Kconfig stuff.  I couldn't find a better way to express it without a
more major overhaul.  In the very least, I renamed "NON_ARCH" to
"PERF_OR_BUDDY" in the hopes that will make it marginally better.

Nothing in this series is terribly critical and even the bugfixes are
small.  However, it does cleanup a few things that were pointed out in
review.

This patch (of 10):

The permissions for the kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl have always been set at
compile time despite the fact that a watchdog can fail to probe.  Let's
fix this and set the permissions based on whether the hardlockup detector
actually probed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230527014153.2793931-1-dianders@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230526184139.1.I0d75971cc52a7283f495aac0bd5c3041aadc734e@changeid
Fixes: a994a3147e4c ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time detection of perf")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZHCn4hNxFpY5-9Ki@alley
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/nmi.h
kernel/watchdog.c