Playing with NMI watchdog on x86_64, I discovered that it didn't
do what I expected. It always panic-ed, even when it didn't
happen from interrupt context. This patch solves that
problem for me. Also, in this case, do_exit() will be called
with interrupts disabled, I believe. Would it be wise to also
call local_irq_enable() after nmi_exit()?
[Yes I added it -AK]
Currently, on x86_64, any NMI watchdog timeout will cause a panic
because the irq count will always be set to be in an interrupt
when do_exit() is called from die_nmi(). If we add nmi_exit() to
the die_nmi() call (since the nmi will never exit "normally")
it seems to solve this problem. The following small program
can be used to trigger the NMI watchdog to reproduce this:
main ()
{
iopl(3);
for (;;) asm("cli");
}
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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