on.org> 1300841052 -0700 kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by default When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds –Ød«˜^x