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| author | Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> | 2009-06-24 14:32:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-25 22:06:11 +0200 |
| commit | 5211a242d0cbdded372aee59da18f80552b0a80a (patch) | |
| tree | 5d2a853e538b8478648a57efe94ef049e76e13e6 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | 9c26f52b900f7207135bafc8789e1a4f5d43e096 (diff) | |
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.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c index 95ea5fa7d44..c8405718a4c 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 a0f48f5671c..5204332f475 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); |