@@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ 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
@@ -626,8 +630,9 @@ 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)
@@ -306,6 +306,9 @@ 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)
@@ -360,8 +363,9 @@ 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
.balign 4
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during early boot to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.21. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 2955b99c1d9593d9e853eb572ab26c5779bf89a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 15:05:20 -0800 Subject: 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 7 ++++++- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.2