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* [PATCH] Move compiler check for modules to ia64 onlyAndi Kleen2006-09-262-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Apparently IA64 needs it, but i386/x86-64 don't anymore since gcc 2.95 support was dropped. Nobody else on linux-arch requested keeping it generically Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: kaos@sgi.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: remove config.h includes from asm-i386 & asm-x86_64Dave Jones2006-09-263-4/+0
| | | | | | | This is now automatically included by kbuild. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] non lazy "sleazy" fpu implementationArjan van de Ven2006-09-262-1/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every* context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU context lazily. This is of course great for applications that have very sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive save/restore all the time). However for very frequent FPU users... you take an extra trap every context switch. The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context gets restored every context switch. If the app indeed uses the FPU, the trap is avoided. (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously). After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until there are 5 consecutive ones again). The reason for this is to give apps that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some time. [akpm@osdl.org: place new task_struct field next to jit_keyring to save space] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Support physical cpu hotplug for x86_64Ashok Raj2006-09-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch enables ACPI based physical CPU hotplug support for x86_64. Implements acpi_map_lsapic() and acpi_unmap_lsapic() to support physical cpu hotplug. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Auto size the per cpu area.Eric W. Biederman2006-09-261-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now for a completely different but trivial approach. I just boot tested it with 255 CPUS and everything worked. Currently everything (except module data) we place in the per cpu area we know about at compile time. So instead of allocating a fixed size for the per_cpu area allocate the number of bytes we need plus a fixed constant for to be used for modules. It isn't perfect but it is much less of a pain to work with than what we are doing now. AK: fixed warning Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Descriptor and trap table cleanups.Rusty Russell2006-09-261-45/+76
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The implementation comes from Zach's [RFC, PATCH 10/24] i386 Vmi descriptor changes: Descriptor and trap table cleanups. Add cleanly written accessors for IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them. Note that this allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary kernel code modification. It also allows the hypervisor implementation of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for custom exception frames or extra layers of indirection above the guest fault / IRQ handlers. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Make enable_local_apic staticAdrian Bunk2006-09-261-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | enable_local_apic can now become static. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: error_code is not safe for kprobesPrasanna S.P2006-09-261-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves the entry.S:error_entry to .kprobes.text section, since code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to entry.S::error_entry, that must be marked unsafe as well. This patch also moves all the ".previous.text" asm directives to ".previous" for kprobes section. AK: Following a similar i386 patch from Chuck Ebbert AK: Also merged Jeremy's fix in. +From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> KPROBE_ENTRY does a .section .kprobes.text, and expects its users to do a .previous at the end of the function. Unfortunately, if any code within the function switches sections, for example .fixup, then the .previous ends up putting all subsequent code into .fixup. Worse, any subsequent .fixup code gets intermingled with the code its supposed to be fixing (which is also in .fixup). It's surprising this didn't cause more havok. The fix is to use .pushsection/.popsection, so this stuff nests properly. A further cleanup would be to get rid of all .section/.previous pairs, since they're inherently fragile. +From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Because code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to entry.S::error_code, that must be marked unsafe as well. The easiest way to do that is to move the page fault entry point to just before error_code and let it inherit the same section. Also moved all the ".previous" asm directives for kprobes sections to column 1 and removed ".text" from them. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Get ebp from unwinder state when continuing fallback backtraceAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+3
| | | | | Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Do stacktracer conversion tooAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Following x86-64 patches. Reuses code from them in fact. Convert the standard backtracer to do all output using callbacks. Use the x86-64 stack tracer implementation that uses these callbacks to implement the stacktrace interface. This allows to use the new dwarf2 unwinder for stacktrace and get better backtraces. Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Merge stacktrace and show_traceAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This unifies the standard backtracer and the new stacktrace in memory backtracer. The standard one is converted to use callbacks and then reimplement stacktrace using new callbacks. The main advantage is that stacktrace can now use the new dwarf2 unwinder and avoid false positives in many cases. I kept it simple to make sure the standard backtracer stays reliable. Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Don't access the APIC in safe_smp_processor_id when it is not mapped yetAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Lockdep can call the dwarf2 unwinder early, and the dwarf2 code uses safe_smp_processor_id which tries to access the local APIC page. But that doesn't work before the APIC code has set up its fixmap. Check for this case and always return boot cpu then. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: Some preparationary cleanup for stack traceAndi Kleen2006-09-261-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | - Remove unused all_contexts parameter No caller used it - Move skip argument into the structure (needed for followon patches) Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: Remove unneeded externs in acpi/boot.cAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | And move one into proto.h Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Convert x86-64 to early paramAndi Kleen2006-09-264-16/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of hackish manual parsing Requires earlier i386 patchkit, but also fixes i386 early_printk again. I removed some obsolete really early parameters which didn't do anything useful. Also made a few parameters that needed it early (mostly oops printing setup) Also removed one panic check that wasn't visible without early console anyways (the early console is now initialized after that panic) This cleans up a lot of code. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing withRusty Russell2006-09-264-18/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces the open-coded early commandline parsing throughout the i386 boot code with the generic mechanism (already used by ppc, powerpc, ia64 and s390). The code was inconsistent with whether it deletes the option from the cmdline or not, meaning some of these will get passed through the environment into init. This transformation is mainly mechanical, but there are some notable parts: 1) Grammar: s/linux never set's it up/linux never sets it up/ 2) Remove hacked-in earlyprintk= option scanning. When someone actually implements CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK, then they can use early_param(). [AK: actually it is implemented, but I'm adding the early_param it in the next x86-64 patch] 3) Move declaration of generic_apic_probe() from setup.c into asm/apic.h 4) Various parameters now moved into their appropriate files (thanks Andi). 5) All parse functions which examine arg need to check for NULL, except one where it has subtle humor value. AK: readded acpi_sci handling which was completely dropped AK: moved some more variables into acpi/boot.c Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Clean up spin/rwlocksAndi Kleen2006-09-262-77/+68
| | | | | | | | - Inline spinlock strings into their inline functions - Convert macros to typesafe inlines - Replace some leftover __asm__ __volatile__s with asm volatile Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Clean up spin/rwlocksAndi Kleen2006-09-262-44/+41
| | | | | | | | - Inline spinlock strings into their inline functions - Convert macros to typesafe inlines - Replace some leftover __asm__ __volatile__s with asm volatile Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Don't use lock section for mutexes and semaphoresAndi Kleen2006-09-263-45/+24
| | | | | | | | Lock sections cannot be handled by the dwarf2 unwinder. Disadvantage is a taken branch in the hot path. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Remove lock section support in semaphore.hAndi Kleen2006-09-261-32/+17
| | | | | | | | | | Lock sections don't work the new dwarf2 unwinder This generates slightly smaller code. It adds one more taken jump to the fast path. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Remove lock section support in rwsem.hAndi Kleen2006-09-261-50/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Lock sections don't work the new dwarf2 unwinder This generates slightly smaller code. It adds one more taken jump to the fast path. Also move the trampolines into semaphore.S and add proper CFI annotations. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Remove lock section support in mutex.hAndi Kleen2006-09-261-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Lock sections don't work the new dwarf2 unwinder This generates slightly smaller code. It adds one more taken jump to the fast path. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Calgary IOMMU: consolidate per bus data structuresMuli Ben-Yehuda2006-09-261-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Move the tce_table_kva array, disabled bitmap and bus_to_phb array into a new per bus 'struct calgary_bus_info'. Also slightly reorganize build_tce_table and tce_table_setparms to avoid exporting bus_info to tce.c. Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Calgary IOMMU: rearrange 'struct iommu_table' membersMuli Ben-Yehuda2006-09-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | Rearrange struct members loosely based on size for improved alignment and to save a few bytes. Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] remove int_delivery_destJan Beulich2006-09-262-2/+0
| | | | | | | The genapic field and the accessor macro weren't used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: Detect CFI support in the assembler at runtimeAndi Kleen2006-09-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... instead of using a CONFIG option. The config option still controls if the resulting executable actually has unwind information. This is useful to prevent compilation errors when users select CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND on old binutils and also allows to use CFI in the future for non kernel debugging applications. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Cc: sam@ravnborg.org Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Replace mp bus array with bitmap for bus not pciAndi Kleen2006-09-261-7/+1
| | | | | | | Since we only support PCI and ISA legacy busses now there is no need to have an full array with checking. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Move early chipset quirks out to new fileAndi Kleen2006-09-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | They did not really belong into io_apic.c. Move them into a new file and clean it up a bit. Also remove outdated ATI quirk that was obsolete, Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Remove obsolete PIC modeAndi Kleen2006-09-262-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | PIC mode is an outdated way to drive the APICs that was used on some early MP boards. It is not supported in the ACPI model. It is unlikely to be ever configured by any x86-64 system Remove it thus. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Minor fixes & cleanup to tlb flushAndi Kleen2006-09-261-3/+1
| | | | | | | | (based on x86-64 changes) - Add a proper memory clobber to invlpg - Remove an unused extern Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Clean up and minor fixes to TLB flushAndi Kleen2006-09-262-37/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | - Convert CR* accesses to dedicated inline functions and rewrite the rest as C inlines - Don't do a double flush for global flushes (pointed out by Zach Amsden) This was a bug workaround for old CPUs that don't do 64bit and is obsolete. - Add a proper memory clobber to invlpg - Remove an unused extern Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Remove all ifdefs for local/io apicAndi Kleen2006-09-266-22/+0
| | | | | | | | | | IO-APIC or local APIC can only be disabled at runtime anyways and Kconfig has forced these options on for a long time now. The Kconfigs are kept only now for the benefit of the shared acpi boot.c code. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Redo semaphore and rwlock assembly helpersAndi Kleen2006-09-263-0/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Move them to a pure assembly file. Previously they were in a C file that only consisted of inline assembly. Doing it in pure assembler is much nicer. - Add a frame.i include with FRAME/ENDFRAME macros to easily add frame pointers to assembly functions - Add dwarf2 annotation to them so that the new dwarf2 unwinder doesn't get stuck on them - Random cleanups Includes feedback from Jan Beulich and a UML build fix from Andrew Morton. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Cc: jdike@addtoit.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: add alternative-asm.h to allow LOCK_PREFIX replacement in .S filesAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+14
| | | | | | | LOCK_PREFIX is replaced by nops on UP systems, so it has to be a special macro. Previously this was only possible from C. Allow it for pure assembly files too. Similar to earlier x86-64 patch. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Add proper alignment to ENTRYAndi Kleen2006-09-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Previously it didn't align. Use the same one as the C compiler in blended mode, which is good for K8 and Core2 and doesn't hurt on P4. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Remove const case for rwlocksAndi Kleen2006-09-261-36/+2
| | | | | | | | rwlocks are now out of line, so it near never triggers. Also it was incompatible with the new dwarf2 unwinder because it had unannotiatable push/pops. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Clean up read write lock assemblyAndi Kleen2006-09-262-67/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Move the slow path fallbacks to their own assembly files This makes them much easier to read and is needed for the next change. - Add CFI annotations for unwinding (XXX need review) - Remove constant case which can never happen with out of line spinlocks - Use patchable LOCK prefixes - Don't use lock sections anymore for inline code because they can't be expressed by the unwinder (this adds one taken jump to the lock fast path) Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Support patchable lock prefix for pure assembly filesAndi Kleen2006-09-261-0/+14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Account spinlocks to the caller during profiling for !FP kernelsAndi Kleen2006-09-261-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | This ports the algorithm from x86-64 (with improvements) to i386. Previously this only worked for frame pointer enabled kernels. But spinlocks have a very simple stack frame that can be manually analyzed. Do this. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86-64 TIF flags for debug regs and io bitmap in ctxswStephane Eranian2006-09-261-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello, Following my discussion with Andi. Here is a patch that introduces two new TIF flags to simplify the context switch code in __switch_to(). The idea is to minimize the number of cache lines accessed in the common case, i.e., when neither the debug registers nor the I/O bitmap are used. This patch covers the x86-64 modifications. A patch for i386 follows. Changelog: - add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active - add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used - modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags <signed-off-by>: eranian@hpl.hp.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Clean up asm/smp.h includesAndi Kleen2006-09-261-12/+0
| | | | | | | No need to include it from entry.S Drop all the #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu callAndi Kleen2006-09-262-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space. x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility. I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall. The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time. The norma methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs portable I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow as needed. AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Add the vgetcpu vsyscallVojtech Pavlik2006-09-264-5/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node numbers and pass them to the program. AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code: Better prototype for vgetcpu() It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA. Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied argument to speed things more up. Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from GDT limit instead of CPUID Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known. Drop printk Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Add initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary valuesVojtech Pavlik2006-09-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values to CPU numbers to time.c. If RDTSCP is available, the MSRs are written with the respective values. It can be later used to initalize per-cpu timekeeping variables. AK: Some cleanups. Move externs into headers and fix CPU hotplug. Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Add macros for rdtscpVojtech Pavlik2006-09-261-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds macros for reading tsc via the RDTSCP instruction, as well as writing the auxilliary MSR read by RDTSCP to msr.h [AK: changed rdtscp definition for old binutils] Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUsVenkatesh Pallipadi2006-09-262-0/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted. Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters ( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors. What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid). And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural events. Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver. Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Fix up panic messages for different NMI panicsAndi Kleen2006-09-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a unknown NMI happened the panic would claim a NMI watchdog timeout. Also it would check the variable set by nmi_watchdog=panic and panic then. Fix up the panic message to be generic Unconditionally panic on unknown NMI when panic on unknown nmi is enabled. Noticed by Jan Beulich Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix NMI watchdog suspend/resumeShaohua Li2006-09-262-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path. And: +From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the suspend/resume cases more gracefully. AK: I merged the two patches together Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMIDon Zickus2006-09-262-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog with sysctlDon Zickus2006-09-263-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi watchdog. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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