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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-03-07 15:05:20 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-03-07 15:08:14 -0800
commit5fa10196bdb5f190f595ebd048490ee52dddea0f (patch)
tree8cf99655866414d49f4529ae591965d259e1beb8 /arch
parentd4078e232267ff53f3b030b9698a3c001db4dbec (diff)
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
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S7
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S6
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index 81ba27679f18..d2a21590794a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -544,6 +544,10 @@ ENDPROC(early_idt_handlers)
/* This is global to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */
ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
cld
+
+ cmpl $X86_TRAP_NMI,(%esp)
+ je is_nmi # Ignore NMI
+
cmpl $2,%ss:early_recursion_flag
je hlt_loop
incl %ss:early_recursion_flag
@@ -594,8 +598,9 @@ ex_entry:
pop %edx
pop %ecx
pop %eax
- addl $8,%esp /* drop vector number and error code */
decl %ss:early_recursion_flag
+is_nmi:
+ addl $8,%esp /* drop vector number and error code */
iret
ENDPROC(early_idt_handler)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index e1aabdb314c8..33f36c78594e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ early_idt_handlers:
ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
cld
+ cmpl $X86_TRAP_NMI,(%rsp)
+ je is_nmi # Ignore NMI
+
cmpl $2,early_recursion_flag(%rip)
jz 1f
incl early_recursion_flag(%rip)
@@ -405,8 +408,9 @@ ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
popq %rdx
popq %rcx
popq %rax
- addq $16,%rsp # drop vector number and error code
decl early_recursion_flag(%rip)
+is_nmi:
+ addq $16,%rsp # drop vector number and error code
INTERRUPT_RETURN
ENDPROC(early_idt_handler)