diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 5acf5b70866d..0dfa4e31563d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -439,6 +439,9 @@ extern int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
 extern int panic_on_io_nmi;
 extern int panic_on_warn;
 extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
+
+extern bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
+
 /*
  * Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default
  * CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT, honor it.
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 7a36fdcca5bf..a785c1015e25 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ struct resource crashk_low_res = {
 
 int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	/*
+	 * If crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled, don't run
+	 * crash_kexec() here yet, which must be run after panic
+	 * notifiers in panic().
+	 */
+	if (crash_kexec_post_notifiers)
+		return 0;
+	/*
+	 * There are 4 panic() calls in do_exit() path, each of which
+	 * corresponds to each of these 4 conditions.
+	 */
 	if (in_interrupt() || !p->pid || is_global_init(p) || panic_on_oops)
 		return 1;
 	return 0;
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 774614f72cbd..04e91ff7560b 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static unsigned long tainted_mask;
 static int pause_on_oops;
 static int pause_on_oops_flag;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock);
-static bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
+bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
 int panic_on_warn __read_mostly;
 
 int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT;