linux-kernel - Re: [V4 PATCH 4/4] x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option

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Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:46:22 +0800
From:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [V4 PATCH 4/4] x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option

Hi,

I just have a look at this thread. I am wondering why we don't use
existing is_kdump_kernel() directly to disable external NMI if it's
in kdump kernel. Then no need to introduce another boot option "noextnmi"
which is used only for kdump kernel.

Thanks
Baoquan

On 09/25/15 at 08:28pm, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> This patch introduces new boot option "noextnmi" which disables
> external NMI.  This option is useful for the dump capture kernel
> so that an HA application or administrator wouldn't mistakenly
> shoot down the kernel by NMI.
> 
> Currently, only x86 supports this option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    4 ++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c         |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 22a4b68..8bcaccd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2379,6 +2379,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>  			noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default)
>  			noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings
>  
> +	noextnmi	[X86]
> +			Mask external NMI.  This option is useful for a
> +			dump capture kernel to be shot down by NMI.
> +
>  	nosmap		[X86]
>  			Disable SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention)
>  			even if it is supported by processor.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
> index 24e94ce..fd47128 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
> @@ -82,6 +82,12 @@
>  static unsigned int disabled_cpu_apicid __read_mostly = BAD_APICID;
>  
>  /*
> + * Don't enable external NMI via LINT1 on BSP.  This is useful for
> + * the dump capture kernel.
> + */
> +static bool apic_noextnmi;
> +
> +/*
>   * Map cpu index to physical APIC ID
>   */
>  DEFINE_EARLY_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(u16, x86_cpu_to_apicid, BAD_APICID);
> @@ -1161,6 +1167,8 @@ void __init init_bsp_APIC(void)
>  	value = APIC_DM_NMI;
>  	if (!lapic_is_integrated())		/* 82489DX */
>  		value |= APIC_LVT_LEVEL_TRIGGER;
> +	if (apic_noextnmi)
> +		value |= APIC_LVT_MASKED;
>  	apic_write(APIC_LVT1, value);
>  }
>  
> @@ -1380,7 +1388,7 @@ void setup_local_APIC(void)
>  	/*
>  	 * only the BP should see the LINT1 NMI signal, obviously.
>  	 */
> -	if (!cpu)
> +	if (!cpu && !apic_noextnmi)
>  		value = APIC_DM_NMI;
>  	else
>  		value = APIC_DM_NMI | APIC_LVT_MASKED;
> @@ -2548,3 +2556,10 @@ static int __init apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid(char *arg)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  early_param("disable_cpu_apicid", apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid);
> +
> +static int __init apic_set_noextnmi(char *arg)
> +{
> +	apic_noextnmi = true;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("noextnmi", apic_set_noextnmi);
> 
> 
> 
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