Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled
It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
Especially if it triggers during a distro install.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 038c7cb..c8c9a0b 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -728,6 +728,15 @@
do_initcalls();
}
+static int __initdata nosoftlockup;
+
+static int __init nosoftlockup_setup(char *str)
+{
+ nosoftlockup = 1;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("nosoftlockup", nosoftlockup_setup);
+
static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
{
extern int spawn_ksoftirqd(void);
@@ -737,7 +746,8 @@
migration_init();
#endif
spawn_ksoftirqd();
- spawn_softlockup_task();
+ if (!nosoftlockup)
+ spawn_softlockup_task();
}
static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)
