[PATCH 0/2] watchdog: pretimeout: Allow building dump governor as module
Mayank Rungta via B4 Relay <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:00:20 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-watchdog,org.kernel.feeds.b4-sent,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
All other watchdog pretimeout governors (noop, panic) can be built as loadable modules. However the "dump" pretimeout governor is restricted to built-in code because it calls trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(), which relies on arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(), an arch specific helper that is not exported to loadable modules. This 2-patch series allows building the dump governor as a module (=m): 1) Export cpumask_backtrace() in lib/nmi_backtrace.c. 2) Convert CONFIG_WATCHDOG_PRETIMEOUT_GOV_DUMP from bool to tristate. Signed-off-by: Mayank Rungta <[email protected]> --- Mayank Rungta (2): nmi: Export CPU backtrace APIs for loadable modules watchdog: pretimeout: Convert dump pretimeout governor to tristate drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 4 ++-- include/linux/nmi.h | 10 ++++++---- lib/nmi_backtrace.c | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 3fe08b9796f36ef437ab9328e7dd1e5ff2d66603 change-id: 20260728-export-cpu-backtrace-apis-136d3b819377 Best regards, -- Mayank Rungta <[email protected]>