From 8da5adda91df3d2fcc5300e68da491694c9af019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Zickus Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:52:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMI To quote Alan Cox: The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated. A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in that directory. This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least panic rather than cause problems further down the line. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86_64') diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c index 42bc070fdf1..b18829db2a6 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -732,6 +732,8 @@ mem_parity_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs * regs) { printk("Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n"); printk("You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips\n"); + if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi) + panic("NMI: Not continuing"); /* Clear and disable the memory parity error line. */ reason = (reason & 0xf) | 4; @@ -757,6 +759,10 @@ unknown_nmi_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs * regs) { printk("Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason %02x.\n", reason); printk("Dazed and confused, but trying to continue\n"); printk("Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?\n"); + + if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi) + panic("NMI: Not continuing"); + } /* Runs on IST stack. This code must keep interrupts off all the time. -- cgit v1.2.3