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authorKurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>2009-06-24 23:32:11 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-25 22:06:11 +0200
commit5211a242d0cbdded372aee59da18f80552b0a80a (patch)
tree5d2a853e538b8478648a57efe94ef049e76e13e6 /arch/x86/kernel
parentx86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization (diff)
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x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
This patch introduces a new sysctl: /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi which defaults to 0 (off). When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI caused by an IO error. The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice, so one can figure out what's causing the IO error. This could be especially important to companies running IO intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a bank's databases. [ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the request of a large database vendor, for their users. ] Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/traps.c3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 95ea5fa7d444..c8405718a4c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include "dumpstack.h"
int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
+int panic_on_io_nmi;
unsigned int code_bytes = 64;
int kstack_depth_to_print = 3 * STACKSLOTS_PER_LINE;
static int die_counter;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index a0f48f5671c0..5204332f475d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -346,6 +346,9 @@ io_check_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
printk(KERN_EMERG "NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)\n");
show_registers(regs);
+ if (panic_on_io_nmi)
+ panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+
/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */
reason = (reason & 0xf) | 8;
outb(reason, 0x61);