From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 2.6.17] Avoid broadcasting NMI IPIs
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:32:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8637.1151037121@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
On some i386/x86_64 systems, sending an NMI IPI as a broadcast will
reset the system. This seems to be a BIOS bug which affects machines
where one or more cpus are not under OS control. It occurs on HT
systems with a version of the OS that is not compiled without HT
support. It also occurs when a system is booted with max_cpus=n where
2 <= n < cpus known to the BIOS. The fix is to always send NMI IPI as
a mask instead of as a broadcast.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
---
This patch needs my earlier patch that defines NMI_VECTOR for i386.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-arch&m=115096692430934&w=2
I was going to do a bigger patch that removed all the broadcast mode
IPI code, so all systems would use cpu masks for IPI. Broadcast mode
is currently restricted to small machines with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n,
everything else already uses mask mode. Removing broadcast mode would
simplify the maze of per-platform IPI handling, everything would be
using masks. But I decided to do the minimal fix and leave the IPI
clean up (and removing the trailing white space in those files) for
another time.
arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c
@@ -78,22 +78,29 @@ static void flat_send_IPI_mask(cpumask_t
static void flat_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector)
{
-#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
- if (((num_online_cpus()) - 1) >= 1)
- __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLBUT, vector,APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+ int hotplug = 1;
#else
- cpumask_t allbutme = cpu_online_map;
+ int hotplug = 0;
+#endif
+ if (hotplug || vector == NMI_VECTOR) {
+ cpumask_t allbutme = cpu_online_map;
- cpu_clear(smp_processor_id(), allbutme);
+ cpu_clear(smp_processor_id(), allbutme);
- if (!cpus_empty(allbutme))
- flat_send_IPI_mask(allbutme, vector);
-#endif
+ if (!cpus_empty(allbutme))
+ flat_send_IPI_mask(allbutme, vector);
+ } else if (num_online_cpus() > 1) {
+ __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLBUT, vector,APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
+ }
}
static void flat_send_IPI_all(int vector)
{
- __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLINC, vector, APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
+ if (vector == NMI_VECTOR)
+ flat_send_IPI_mask(cpu_online_map, vector);
+ else
+ __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLINC, vector, APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
}
static int flat_apic_id_registered(void)
Index: linux/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ static inline void send_IPI_mask(cpumask
static inline void __local_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector)
{
- if (no_broadcast) {
+ if (no_broadcast || vector == NMI_VECTOR) {
cpumask_t mask = cpu_online_map;
cpu_clear(smp_processor_id(), mask);
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static inline void __local_send_IPI_allb
static inline void __local_send_IPI_all(int vector)
{
- if (no_broadcast)
+ if (no_broadcast || vector == NMI_VECTOR)
send_IPI_mask(cpu_online_map, vector);
else
__send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLINC, vector);
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-23 4:32 Keith Owens [this message]
2006-06-23 12:32 ` [patch 2.6.17] Avoid broadcasting NMI IPIs Andi Kleen
2006-06-24 8:15 ` Keith Owens
2006-06-24 8:36 ` Andi Kleen
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