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>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a571495a9ac6..789f97ac22bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1181,6 +1181,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         nosmp           [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel.
 
+        nosoftlockup    [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
+
         nosync          [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
 
         notsc           [BUGS=IA-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 038c7cb52390..c8c9a0b21e99 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -728,6 +728,15 @@ static void __init do_basic_setup(void)
         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 @@ static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
         migration_init();
 #endif
         spawn_ksoftirqd();
-        spawn_softlockup_task();
+        if (!nosoftlockup)
+                spawn_softlockup_task();
 }
 
 static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)