From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756406Ab0JKVIw (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:08:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59387 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756325Ab0JKVIv (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:08:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:08:29 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox , Huang Ying , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 5/6] x86, NMI, treat unknown NMI as hardware error Message-ID: <20101011210829.GA28823@redhat.com> References: <1286606987-19879-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1286606987-19879-5-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <20101010150713.3cd3eed2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101010141311.GB26728@basil.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101010141311.GB26728@basil.fritz.box> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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