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workqueue: add CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_WQ_STALL_PANIC option
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Tue, 3 Feb 2026 17:01:17 +0000 (09:01 -0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 3 Feb 2026 19:37:59 +0000 (09:37 -1000)
commit32d572e39031920691abfada68cdb19ad44b4eeb
treed9b89f9aa3de0d8659c59b35de9f2406fba3e36d
parent51cd2d2decf365a248ddc304b7aa6f0cadc748c3
workqueue: add CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_WQ_STALL_PANIC option

Add a kernel config option to set the default value of
workqueue.panic_on_stall, similar to CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC,
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC.

This allows setting the number of workqueue stalls before triggering
a kernel panic at build time, which is useful for high-availability
systems that need consistent panic-on-stall, in other words, those
servers which run with CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_*_PANIC=y already.

The default remains 0 (disabled). Setting it to 1 will panic on the
first stall, and higher values will panic after that many stall
warnings. The value can still be overridden at runtime via the
workqueue.panic_on_stall boot parameter or sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/workqueue.c
lib/Kconfig.debug