[PATCH] x86_64: Don't run NMI watchdog during machine checks

Machine checks can stall the machine for a long time and
it's not good to trigger the nmi watchdog during that.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
index 10b3e348fc9960c66fafec31350ba81f97196ebc..6f0790e8b6d3b50af3d6774ed4e127f00632076d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 #define MISC_MCELOG_MINOR 227
 #define NR_BANKS 6
 
+atomic_t mce_entry;
+
 static int mce_dont_init;
 
 /* 0: always panic, 1: panic if deadlock possible, 2: try to avoid panic,
@@ -172,10 +174,12 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
        int i;
        int panicm_found = 0;
 
+       atomic_inc(&mce_entry);
+
        if (regs)
                notify_die(DIE_NMI, "machine check", regs, error_code, 18, SIGKILL);
        if (!banks)
-               return;
+               goto out2;
 
        memset(&m, 0, sizeof(struct mce));
        m.cpu = safe_smp_processor_id();
@@ -266,6 +270,8 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
  out:
        /* Last thing done in the machine check exception to clear state. */
        wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, 0);
+ out2:
+       atomic_dec(&mce_entry);
 }
 
 /*

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
index d9e4067faf057531c60ceebd6b50a676609303f8..4e6357fe0ec3e21a76e8afc9a38a4211342e899b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include <asm/proto.h>
 #include <asm/kdebug.h>
 #include <asm/local.h>
+#include <asm/mce.h>
 
 /*
  * lapic_nmi_owner tracks the ownership of the lapic NMI hardware:
@@ -480,6 +481,12 @@ void __kprobes nmi_watchdog_tick(struct pt_regs * regs, unsigned reason)
                __get_cpu_var(nmi_touch) = 0;
                touched = 1;
        }
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
+       /* Could check oops_in_progress here too, but it's safer
+          not too */
+       if (atomic_read(&mce_entry) > 0)
+               touched = 1;
+#endif
        if (!touched && __get_cpu_var(last_irq_sum) == sum) {
                /*
                 * Ayiee, looks like this CPU is stuck ...

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/mce.h b/include/asm-x86_64/mce.h
index 5d298b799a9f5ff6c036efad1b8f6afc6d899820..7229785094e375ff3e8bba0629b787aa66f609f5 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/mce.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/mce.h
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ struct mce_log {
 #define MCE_THRESHOLD_BASE      MCE_EXTENDED_BANK + 1 /* MCE_AMD */
 #define MCE_THRESHOLD_DRAM_ECC  MCE_THRESHOLD_BASE + 4
 
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#include <asm/atomic.h>
+
 void mce_log(struct mce *m);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL
 void mce_intel_feature_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
@@ -87,4 +90,8 @@ static inline void mce_amd_feature_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 }
 #endif
 
+extern atomic_t mce_entry;
+
+#endif
+
 #endif