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x86, UV: Make kdump avoid stack dumps

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UV NMI callback's should not write stack dumps when a kdump is to be written.

When invoking the crash kernel to write a dump, kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus()
uses NMI's to get all the cpu's to save their register context and halt.

But the NMI interrupt handler runs a callback list.  This patch sets a flag
to prevent any of those callbacks from interfering with the halt of the cpu.

For UV, which currently has the only callback to which this is relevant, the
uv_handle_nmi() callback should not do dumping of stacks.

The 'in_crash_kexec' flag is defined as an extern in kdebug.h firstly
because x2apic_uv_x.c includes it.  Secondly because some future callback
might need the flag to know that it should not enter the debugger.
(Such a scenario was in fact present in the 2.6.32 kernel, SuSE distribution,
 where a call to kdb needed to be avoided.)

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <E1ObLvt-0005UZ-Va@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Cliff Wickman
2010-07-20 18:09:05 -05:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 93a7ca0c3e
commit 5edd19af18
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@ -33,5 +33,6 @@ extern void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, int all);
extern void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs);
extern unsigned long oops_begin(void);
extern void oops_end(unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, int signr);
extern int in_crash_kexec;
#endif /* _ASM_X86_KDEBUG_H */