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Linus Torvalds
8ce5e3e45e Disable NMI watchdog by default properly
This reverts commit 6ebf622b25 and
replaces it with one that actually works.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-14 17:53:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
6ebf622b25 [PATCH] disable NMI watchdog by default
there's a new NMI watchdog related problem: KVM crashes on certain
bzImages because ... we enable the NMI watchdog by default (even if the
user does not ask for it) , and no other OS on this planet does that so
KVM doesnt have emulation for that yet. So KVM injects a #GP, which
crashes the Linux guest:

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
 PREEMPT SMP
 Modules linked in:
 CPU:    0
 EIP:    0060:[<c011a8ae>]    Not tainted VLI
 EFLAGS: 00000246   (2.6.20-rc5-rt0 #3)
 EIP is at setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+0x26d/0x3d3

and no, i did /not/ request an nmi_watchdog on the boot command line!

Solution: turn off that darn thing! It's a debug tool, not a 'make life
harder' tool!!

with this patch the KVM guest boots up just fine.

And with this my laptop (Lenovo T60) also stopped its sporadic hard
hanging (sometimes in acpi_init(), sometimes later during bootup,
sometimes much later during actual use) as well. It hung with both
nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2, so it's generally the fact of NMI
injection that is causing problems, not the NMI watchdog variant, nor
any particular bootup code.

[ NMI breaks on some systems, esp in combination with SMM -Arjan ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05 08:23:51 -08:00
Andrew Morton
bb81a09e55 [PATCH] x86: all cpu backtrace
When a spinlock lockup occurs, arrange for the NMI code to emit an all-cpu
backtrace, so we get to see which CPU is holding the lock, and where.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:01 +01:00
Andi Kleen
29cbc78b90 [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctls
Use prototypes in headers
Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures

Cc: dzickus@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Shaohua Li
4038f901cf [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix NMI watchdog suspend/resume
Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline
APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume
method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path.

And:

+From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the
suspend/resume cases more gracefully.

AK: I merged the two patches together

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
407984f1af [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog with sysctl
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
2fbe7b25c8 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions
Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as
they are no longer needed.  The various subsystems are modified to register
with the die_notifier instead.

Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
3adbbcce9a [PATCH] x86: Cleanup NMI interrupt path
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path.  Instead of being gated by if
the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is
registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog,
reseting it if enabled.  This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if
they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback).

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
b7471c6da9 [PATCH] i386: Add SMP support on i386 to reservation framework
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware.
A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read.  In addition,
it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the
watchdog or not.  This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs
easier.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
828f0afda1 [PATCH] x86: Add performance counter reservation framework for UP kernels
Adds basic infrastructure to allow subsystems to reserve performance
counters on the x86 chips.  Only UP kernels are supported in this patch to
make reviewing easier.  The SMP portion makes a lot more changes.

Think of this as a locking mechanism where each bit represents a different
counter.  In addition, each subsystem should also reserve an appropriate
event selection register that will correspond to the performance counter it
will be using (this is mainly neccessary for the Pentium 4 chips as they
break the 1:1 relationship to performance counters).

This will help prevent subsystems like oprofile from interfering with the
nmi watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
3e4ff11574 [PATCH] x86_64: nmi watchdog header cleanup
Misc header cleanup for nmi watchdog.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00