linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] kgdb, x86: Avoid invoking kgdb

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Date:	Mon,  6 Oct 2008 14:14:14 -0500
From:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] kgdb, x86: Avoid invoking kgdb_nmicallback twice per NMI

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>

Stress-testing KVM's latest NMI support with kgdbts inside an SMP guest,
I came across spurious unhandled NMIs while running the singlestep test.
Looking closer at the code path each NMI takes when KGDB is enabled, I
noticed that kgdb_nmicallback is called twice per event: One time via
DIE_NMI_IPI notification, the second time on DIE_NMI. Removing the first
invocation cures the unhandled NMIs here.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c |    7 +------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
index 8282a21..10435a1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -455,12 +455,7 @@ static int __kgdb_notify(struct die_args *args, unsigned long cmd)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
 	case DIE_NMI_IPI:
-		if (atomic_read(&kgdb_active) != -1) {
-			/* KGDB CPU roundup */
-			kgdb_nmicallback(raw_smp_processor_id(), regs);
-			was_in_debug_nmi[raw_smp_processor_id()] = 1;
-			touch_nmi_watchdog();
-		}
+		/* Just ignore, we will handle the roundup on DIE_NMI. */
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
 	case DIE_NMIUNKNOWN:
-- 
1.6.0.2

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