linux-kernel - KGDB: x86: Avoid invoking kgdb

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Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:05 +0200
From:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: KGDB: x86: Avoid invoking kgdb_nmicallback twice per NMI

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>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c |    7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -455,12 +455,7 @@ static int __kgdb_notify(struct die_args
 		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:

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
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