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Message-ID: <20151027090627.GA29587@dhcp-128-28.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:06:27 +0800
From:	"'Baoquan He'" <bhe@...hat.com>
To:	河合英宏 / KAWAI,HIDEHIRO 
	<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" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU,MASAMI 
	<masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [V4 PATCH 4/4] x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option

On 10/27/15 at 09:01am, 河合英宏 / KAWAI,HIDEHIRO wrote:
> 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.
> 
> As I stated in another mail, there is a case where we don't want to
> mask external NMIs in the second kernel.  So, we need some
> configurable way.  Please see the following quotation.

Got it. Thanks for telling.

> 
> > We souldn't enable this feature silently.  Some users wouldn't like
> > to enable this feature.  For example, a user enables a watchdog timer
> > which raises an external NMI when the counter is not reset for a
> > specific duration.  Then, the second kernel hangs up while saving
> > crash dump, and NMI is delivered to the CPU.  The kernel gets panic
> > due to the NMI, prints some information to the display and serial
> > console, and then automatically reboot.  In this case, users don't
> > want to block external NMIs.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hidehiro Kawai
> Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group
> 
> 
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