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| author | Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> | 2010-07-20 18:09:05 -0500 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-07-21 11:33:27 -0700 |
| commit | 5edd19af18a36a4e22c570b1b969179e0ca1fe4c (patch) | |
| tree | ad4c52f24218c1358d8e8ea51d2ce23a20c37d68 /arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h | |
| parent | 93a7ca0c3ebe5d931126f1fb732cb9c4518383d4 (diff) | |
x86, UV: Make kdump avoid stack dumps
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h index fa7c0b97476..7a2910b3512 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h @@ -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 */ |