This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-ignore-nmis-that-come-in-during-early-boot.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5fa10196bdb5f190f595ebd048490ee52dddea0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 15:05:20 -0800
Subject: x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394221143-29713-1-git-send-email-dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 7 ++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- 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)
--- 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)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/x86-fix-compile-error-due-to-x86_trap_nmi-use-in-asm-files.patch
queue-3.10/x86-ignore-nmis-that-come-in-during-early-boot.patch
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