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[PATCH] x86 NMI: better support for debuggers

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This patch adds a notify to the die_nmi notify that the system is about to
be taken down.  If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the
system is given a new lease on life.

We also change the nmi watchdog to carry on if die_nmi returns.

This give debug code a chance to a) catch watchdog timeouts and b) possibly
allow the system to continue, realizing that the time out may be due to
debugger activities such as single stepping which is usually done with
"other" cpus held.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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George Anzinger
2005-09-03 15:56:48 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f2f30ebca6
commit 748f2edb52
3 changed files with 17 additions and 3 deletions
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arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
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@@ -501,8 +501,11 @@ void nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs * regs)
*/
alert_counter[cpu]++;
if (alert_counter[cpu] == 5*nmi_hz)
/*
* die_nmi will return ONLY if NOTIFY_STOP happens..
*/
die_nmi(regs, "NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP");
} else {
last_irq_sums[cpu] = sum;
alert_counter[cpu] = 0;
}