linux/arch/x86
H. Peter Anvin 5fa10196bd x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot
Don Zickus reports:

A customer generated an external NMI using their iLO to test kdump
worked.  Unfortunately, the machine hung.  Disabling the nmi_watchdog
made things work.

I speculated the external NMI fired, caused the machine to panic (as
expected) and the perf NMI from the watchdog came in and was latched.
My guess was this somehow caused the hang.

   ----

It appears that the latched NMI stays latched until the early page
table generation on 64 bits, which causes exceptions to happen which
end in IRET, which re-enable NMI.  Therefore, ignore NMIs that come in
during early execution, until we have proper exception handling.

Reported-and-tested-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394221143-29713-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.5+, older with some backport effort
2014-03-07 15:08:14 -08:00
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boot x86, kaslr: add missed "static" declarations 2014-02-25 16:59:29 -08:00
configs
crypto crypto: aesni - fix build on x86 (32bit) 2014-01-15 11:36:34 +08:00
ia32 constify copy_siginfo_to_user{,32}() 2013-11-09 00:16:29 -05:00
include * Disable the new EFI 1:1 virtual mapping for SGI UV because using it 2014-03-04 15:50:06 -08:00
kernel x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot 2014-03-07 15:08:14 -08:00
kvm kvm, vmx: Really fix lazy FPU on nested guest 2014-02-27 22:54:11 +01:00
lguest x86, asmlinkage, lguest: Fix C functions used by inline assembler 2014-01-29 22:17:17 -08:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
math-emu x86: math-emu: Drop already-disabled print of build date 2014-01-27 23:14:12 +01:00
mm x86, trace: Further robustify CR2 handling vs tracing 2014-03-06 10:58:18 -08:00
net bpf: do not use reciprocal divide 2014-01-15 17:02:08 -08:00
oprofile
pci ACPI and power management updates for 3.14-rc1 2014-01-24 15:51:02 -08:00
platform x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV 2014-03-04 23:43:33 +00:00
power
realmode Merge commit 'f4bcd8ccddb02833340652e9f46f5127828eb79d' into x86/build 2014-01-29 09:07:00 -08:00
syscalls sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI 2014-01-13 13:41:04 +01:00
tools Merge commit 'f4bcd8ccddb02833340652e9f46f5127828eb79d' into x86/build 2014-01-29 09:07:00 -08:00
um um, x86: Fix vDSO build 2014-01-12 16:47:31 +01:00
vdso Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 12:03:57 -08:00
video
xen xen: properly account for _PAGE_NUMA during xen pte translations 2014-02-10 16:01:41 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig * Avoid WARN_ON() when mapping BGRT on Baytrail (EFI 32-bit). 2014-02-07 11:27:30 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86: Disable CONFIG_X86_DECODER_SELFTEST in allmod/allyesconfigs 2014-02-05 14:10:30 -08:00
Makefile x86, build: Build 16-bit code with -m16 where possible 2014-01-30 08:05:36 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um