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From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 5/6] x86, NMI, treat unknown NMI as hardware error
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:08:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011210829.GA28823@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101010141311.GB26728@basil.fritz.box>

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > These systems are identified via the presentation of APEI HEST or
> > > some PCI ID of the host bridge. The PCI ID of host bridge instead of
> > > DMI ID is used, so that the checking can be done based on the platform
> > > type instead of motherboard. This should be simpler and sufficient.
> > > 
> > > The method to identify the platforms is designed by Andi Kleen.
> > 
> > Why not make the new flag also a boot option so you can force it on for
> > platforms where we don't auto whitelist it.
> 
> You can already set it at run time using sysctl.
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi

I get the impression Alan was talking about the option

unknown_nmi_as_hwerr

which isn't hooked into a sysctl but will cause machines to panic.

Cheers,
Don

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-09  6:49 [PATCH -v3 1/6] x86, NMI, Add NMI symbol constants and rename memory parity to PCI SERR Huang Ying
2010-10-09  6:49 ` [PATCH -v3 2/6] x86, NMI, Add touch_nmi_watchdog to io_check_error delay Huang Ying
2010-10-09  6:49 ` [PATCH -v3 3/6] x86, NMI, Rewrite NMI handler Huang Ying
2010-10-11 16:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-11 20:35     ` Don Zickus
2010-10-12  0:50     ` Huang Ying
2010-10-12  6:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-12  6:14         ` Huang Ying
2010-10-12  6:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-12  6:37             ` Huang Ying
2010-10-12  6:40               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-12  6:45                 ` Huang Ying
2010-10-12  6:49                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-12  6:54                     ` Huang Ying
2010-10-12 13:51                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-12 14:15                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-27 16:45                         ` Don Zickus
2010-10-27 17:08                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-27 18:07                             ` Don Zickus
2010-11-02 17:50                             ` Don Zickus
2010-11-02 18:16                               ` Huang Ying
2010-11-02 19:11                                 ` Don Zickus
2010-11-02 20:47                                 ` Don Zickus
2010-10-09  6:49 ` [PATCH -v3 4/6] Make NMI reason io port (0x61) can be processed on any CPU Huang Ying
2010-10-09  6:49 ` [PATCH -v3 5/6] x86, NMI, treat unknown NMI as hardware error Huang Ying
2010-10-10 14:07   ` Alan Cox
2010-10-10 14:13     ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-11 21:08       ` Don Zickus [this message]
2010-10-11 21:12         ` Don Zickus
2010-10-11 21:20   ` Don Zickus
2010-10-12  1:10     ` Huang Ying
2010-10-20  6:12     ` Huang Ying
2010-10-20 14:15       ` Don Zickus
2010-10-21  1:14         ` Huang Ying
2010-10-21  2:31           ` Don Zickus
2010-10-21  5:17             ` Huang Ying
2010-10-21 14:10               ` Don Zickus
2010-10-21 15:45                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-22  1:49                   ` Don Zickus
2010-10-22  2:05                     ` Huang Ying
2010-10-22  2:56                       ` Don Zickus
2010-10-22  5:23                         ` Huang Ying
2010-10-22  9:24                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-09  6:49 ` [PATCH -v3 6/6] x86, NMI, Remove do_nmi_callback logic Huang Ying

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