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authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>2006-05-08 15:17:25 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-05-08 09:34:56 -0700
commit8b1ffe9550e71224c43d8c754245bd76f4ea9bb8 (patch)
treef569da4b1dabc94867ff2a7a0d383bef0d4f49bf /arch
parentcdc60a4c8e71c4bcf67e83fac6c0cabd0ff19bfe (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: add nmi_exit to die_nmi
Playing with NMI watchdog on x86_64, I discovered that it didn't do what I expected. It always panic-ed, even when it didn't happen from interrupt context. This patch solves that problem for me. Also, in this case, do_exit() will be called with interrupts disabled, I believe. Would it be wise to also call local_irq_enable() after nmi_exit()? [Yes I added it -AK] Currently, on x86_64, any NMI watchdog timeout will cause a panic because the irq count will always be set to be in an interrupt when do_exit() is called from die_nmi(). If we add nmi_exit() to the die_nmi() call (since the nmi will never exit "normally") it seems to solve this problem. The following small program can be used to trigger the NMI watchdog to reproduce this: main () { iopl(3); for (;;) asm("cli"); } Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
index 0ebb281aa17..6b87268c5c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -472,6 +472,8 @@ void __kprobes die_nmi(char *str, struct pt_regs *regs)
panic("nmi watchdog");
printk("console shuts up ...\n");
oops_end(flags);
+ nmi_exit();
+ local_irq_enable();
do_exit(SIGSEGV);
}