ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
authorCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:42:50 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:14:36 +0000 (17:14 -0700)
The IPMI watchdog timer clears or extends the timer on reboot/shutdown.
It was using the non-locking routine for setting the watchdog timer, but
this was causing race conditions.  Instead, use the locking version to
avoid the races.  It seems to work fine.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c

index 57a53ba..99dc1da 100644 (file)
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ static int wdog_reboot_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
                if (code == SYS_POWER_OFF || code == SYS_HALT) {
                        /* Disable the WDT if we are shutting down. */
                        ipmi_watchdog_state = WDOG_TIMEOUT_NONE;
-                       panic_halt_ipmi_set_timeout();
+                       ipmi_set_timeout(IPMI_SET_TIMEOUT_NO_HB);
                } else if (ipmi_watchdog_state != WDOG_TIMEOUT_NONE) {
                        /* Set a long timer to let the reboot happens, but
                           reboot if it hangs, but only if the watchdog
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ static int wdog_reboot_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
                        timeout = 120;
                        pretimeout = 0;
                        ipmi_watchdog_state = WDOG_TIMEOUT_RESET;
-                       panic_halt_ipmi_set_timeout();
+                       ipmi_set_timeout(IPMI_SET_TIMEOUT_NO_HB);
                }
        }
        return NOTIFY_OK;