Subject: [PATCH] boot: add early NMI counter From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao We currently ignore early NMIs but it would be nice to be able to know whether they actually occurred. This patch adds an early NMI counter and exports it trough /proc/interrupts with the name of ENM (Early NMI). Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao --- diff -urNp linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h --- linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h 2012-03-07 15:49:01.826241682 +0900 +++ linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h 2012-03-07 18:52:27.668054122 +0900 @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_stack_ptr); DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_count); extern unsigned long kernel_eflags; extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void); +extern unsigned int early_nmi_count; #else /* X86_64 */ #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR /* diff -urNp linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S --- linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S 2012-03-07 18:51:17.583160114 +0900 +++ linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S 2012-03-07 18:54:37.205699422 +0900 @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ early_exception_handler: jmp 1b early_nmi_handler: + incl early_nmi_count(%rip) # exported as ENM in /proc/interrupts iretq #ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK @@ -340,6 +341,10 @@ early_idt_ripmsg: #endif /* CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK */ .previous + .globl early_nmi_count +early_nmi_count: + .long 0 + #define NEXT_PAGE(name) \ .balign PAGE_SIZE; \ ENTRY(name) diff -urNp linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c --- linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c 2012-03-07 15:49:01.838241839 +0900 +++ linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c 2012-03-07 18:55:14.078179448 +0900 @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ int arch_show_interrupts(struct seq_file #if defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC) seq_printf(p, "%*s: %10u\n", prec, "MIS", atomic_read(&irq_mis_count)); #endif + seq_printf(p, "%*s: %10u\n", prec, "ENM", early_nmi_count); return 0; }