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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-03-07 15:05:20 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-23 21:38:15 -0700
commita56c57c055ecc75f4375d60c783a0b578edd763c (patch)
tree052089d136175229dbe54728c1c12d4e32db76b2 /arch
parent783d444c6dbca17d2b15918ef6b30add2ba586b8 (diff)
x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot
commit 5fa10196bdb5f190f595ebd048490ee52dddea0f upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 73afd11799ca..e194842b0937 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -566,6 +566,10 @@ 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
@@ -616,8 +620,9 @@ 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 a8368608ab41..9035aefdfc3a 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)