From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:55:48 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [V4 PATCH 4/4] x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option Message-ID: <20150930115548.GI2881@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20150925112803.4258.94241.stgit@softrs> <20150925112811.4258.54494.stgit@softrs> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150925112811.4258.54494.stgit@softrs> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: x86@kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Eric W. Biederman" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Masami Hiramatsu , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Vivek Goyal On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 08:28:11PM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote: > This patch introduces new boot option "noextnmi" which disables > external NMI. This option is useful for the dump capture kernel > so that an HA application or administrator wouldn't mistakenly > shoot down the kernel by NMI. So that they can get really stuck when the crash kernel crashes, right? ;-) _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec