Re: [PATCH 0/6 V2] x86, nmi: Various fixes and cleanups

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 03:25:43PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> I started this patch by fixing a performance problem with the GHES
> NMI handler and then things evolved to more patches as I was poking
> around in the code.
> 
> The main focus was moving the GHES NMI driver to its own NMI subtype
> to avoid slowing down perf handling.  Then I decided to move the
> default external NMI handler to its own routine.  Then finally, I
> needed to see which NMI handlers were registered so I hacked up
> /proc/interrupts to show me.
> 
> Tested mostly on HP boxes that have GHES enabled and having the iLO
> send NMIs to panic the box (using hpwdt driver).  Ran perf on other
> GHES enabled boxes to test performance results.
> 
> V2: adding irq_work items to handled possible lost NMIs (new patch 1)
>     modified output of /proc/interrupts based on feedback (patch 6)
> 

ugh.  Forgot to snip below..
> Don Zickus (5):
>   x86, nmi:  Add new nmi type 'external'
>   x86, nmi: Add boot line option 'panic_on_unrecovered_nmi' and
>     'panic_on_io_nmi'
>   x86, nmi: Remove 'reason' value from unknown nmi output
>   x86, nmi: Move default external NMI handler to its own routine
>   x86, nmi: Add better NMI stats to /proc/interrupts and show handlers
> 
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    9 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/nmi.h          |    5 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/irq.c               |    3 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c               |  199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c            |    4 +-
>  drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c            |   24 +++--
>  6 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> 
> *** BLURB HERE ***

.. to here.

Cheers,
Don

> 
> Don Zickus (6):
>   x86, nmi:  Implement delayed irq_work mechanism to handle lost NMIs
>   x86, nmi:  Add new nmi type 'external'
>   x86, nmi: Add boot line option 'panic_on_unrecovered_nmi' and
>     'panic_on_io_nmi'
>   x86, nmi: Remove 'reason' value from unknown nmi output
>   x86, nmi: Move default external NMI handler to its own routine
>   x86, nmi: Add better NMI stats to /proc/interrupts and show handlers
> 
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    9 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/nmi.h          |    5 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/irq.c               |    3 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c               |  302 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c            |    4 +-
>  drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c            |   24 ++-
>  6 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>