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andrew.cooper3 at citrix

Jun 8, 2012, 11:56 AM

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x86/nmi: Fix deadlock in unknown_nmi_error()

x86/nmi: Fix deadlock in unknown_nmi_error()

Additionally, correct the text description to reflect what is being
done, and
make use of fatal_trap() in preference to kexec_crash() in case an
unknown NMI
occurs before a kdump kernel has been loaded.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3 [at] citrix>


diff -r 32034d1914a6 -r 996f7fe3c3b8 xen/arch/x86/traps.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
@@ -3293,7 +3293,7 @@ static void io_check_error(struct cpu_us
outb((inb(0x61) & 0x07) | 0x00, 0x61); /* enable IOCK */
}

-static void unknown_nmi_error(unsigned char reason)
+static void unknown_nmi_error(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, unsigned char
reason)
{
switch ( opt_nmi[0] )
{
@@ -3302,10 +3302,10 @@ static void unknown_nmi_error(unsigned c
case 'i': /* 'ignore' */
break;
default: /* 'fatal' */
+ console_force_unlock();
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");
- kexec_crash();
+ fatal_trap(TRAP_nmi, regs);
}
}

@@ -3338,7 +3338,7 @@ void do_nmi(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
else if ( reason & 0x40 )
io_check_error(regs);
else if ( !nmi_watchdog )
- unknown_nmi_error((unsigned char)(reason&0xff));
+ unknown_nmi_error(regs, (unsigned char)(reason&0xff));
}
}

--
Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com
Attachments: nmi-fix-deadlock.patch (1.51 KB)

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