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From: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] x86: Fix panic vs. NMI issues
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:14:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150722021421.5155.74460.stgit@softrs> (raw)

When an HA cluster software or administrator detects non-response
of a host, they issue an NMI to the host to completely stop current
works and take a crash dump.  If the kernel has already panicked
or is capturing a crash dump at that time, further NMI can cause
a crash dump failure.

To solve this issue, this patch set does two things:

- Don't panic on NMI if the kernel has already panicked
- Introduce "noextnmi" boot option which masks external NMI at the
  boot time (supported only for x86)

---

Hidehiro Kawai (3):
      x86/panic: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI
      kexec: Fix race between panic() and crash_kexec() directly called
      x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option


 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c         |   17 +++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c               |   18 +++++++++++------
 include/linux/kernel.h              |    4 ++++
 include/linux/kexec.h               |    2 ++
 kernel/kexec.c                      |   12 ++++++++++-
 kernel/panic.c                      |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 7 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)


-- 
Hidehiro Kawai
Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group



             reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22  2:14 Hidehiro Kawai [this message]
2015-07-22  2:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] kexec: Fix race between panic() and crash_kexec() directly called Hidehiro Kawai
2015-07-22  2:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/panic: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI Hidehiro Kawai
2015-07-23  8:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-23  9:43     ` Hidehiro Kawai
2015-07-22  2:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option Hidehiro Kawai
2015-07-23  8:25 ` [PATCH 0/3] x86: Fix panic vs. NMI issues Michal Hocko
2015-07-23 10:11   ` Hidehiro Kawai
2015-07-23 11:25     ` Michal Hocko

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