Re: [RFC] arch generic way to trigger unknown NMIs

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:26:41AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Having a regression test for this is good, but it would 
> be also good if it wasn't a private one but in some public
> git repository.

Yeah, I know.  It isn't meant to be private, mostly glue logic to load
this module using RedHat's internal test harness.

Is there a more public place to add a test like this?  I guess that would
be LTP.  Though last time I looked at LTP, all the tests are written in
'C' whereas I just cobbled together some shell scripts to configure kdump,
load the module, panic, process the resulting vmcore to verify it panic'd
for the right reason.

> 
> >  static struct jprobe lkdtm;
> > @@ -340,6 +343,9 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
> >  		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> >  		schedule();
> >  		break;
> > +	case NMI:
> > +		apic->send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR);
> > +		break;
> >  	case NONE:
> >  	default:
> >  		break;
> > 
> > Anyone have any thoughts?  Maybe there is an easier way?
> 
> Do you really want the NMI on all CPUs - 1? Normally it's directed to
> a single one.

No I prefer a single one too, but there didn't seem to be a
send_IPI_self() command, so I took the short route and sent it to
everyone. :-(

Cheers,
Don

> 
> -Andi