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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, UV: Fix NMI handler for UV platforms
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:19:09PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 08:08 PM, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:00:53PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> On 03/21/2011 07:43 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>
> >>> I think Jack might need to setup priority for his notifier, like
> >>>
> >>> static struct notifier_block uv_dump_stack_nmi_nb = {
> >>> .notifier_call = uv_handle_nmi,
> >>> .priority = NMI_LOCAL_HIGH_PRIOR+1,
> >>> };
> >>>
> >>> so it would be called before perf nmi. Don, am I right?
> >>>
> >>> Since for perf nmis we do have
> >>>
> >>> static __read_mostly struct notifier_block perf_event_nmi_notifier = {
> >>> .notifier_call = perf_event_nmi_handler,
> >>> .next = NULL,
> >>> .priority = NMI_LOCAL_LOW_PRIOR,
> >>> };
> >>>
> >>
> >> I must admit I've missed the fact that Jack has tried NMIs priorities, right?
> >> x86_platform_ops seems to be a cleaner indeed (btw I think p4 pmu kgdb issue
> >> is exactly the same problem) but same time this might end up in over-swelled
> >> ideas behind this small code snippet. Dunno. Probably we need some per-cpu
> >> system status for nmi reasons other than unknown nmis...
> >
> > We use KDB internally, and yes, it has the same issue. The version of the
> > patch that uses KDB OR's the "handled" status for both KDB & the UV NMI handler.
> > If either KDB or the UV NMI handler returns "handled", the code in traps.c exits
> > after the call to the first die notifier.
> >
> > Not particularily pretty but I could not find a better way to do it.
> >
> > --- jack
>
> Another option might be to add pre-nmi notifier chain, which of course
> not much differ from platform ops but I guess platform ops stands mostly
> for one-shot events while chain might be more flexible. Ie I mean something
> like
>
> if (notify_pre_die(DIE_NMI, "nmi", regs, 0, 2, SIGINT) == NOTIFY_STOP)
> return;

You still need to process both chains in order to handle the case where both
hw_perf & the SGI BMC raise NMIs at about the same time.

--- jack


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