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authorHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>2015-12-14 11:19:12 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-12-19 11:07:01 +0100
commitb7c4948e9881fb38b048269f376fb4bf194ce24a (patch)
treefff57d6a5ab1fb2294b040a8d2741120239ba34b /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
parent7bbee5ca3896f69f09c68be549cb8997abe6bca6 (diff)
x86/apic: Introduce apic_extnmi command line parameter
This patch introduces a command line parameter apic_extnmi: apic_extnmi=( bsp|all|none ) The default value is "bsp" and this is the current behavior: only the Boot-Strapping Processor receives an external NMI. "all" allows external NMIs to be broadcast to all CPUs. This would raise the success rate of panic on NMI when BSP hangs in NMI context or the external NMI is swallowed by other NMI handlers on the BSP. If you specify "none", no CPUs receive external NMIs. This is useful for the dump capture kernel so that it cannot be shot down by accidentally pressing the external NMI button (on platforms which have it) while saving a crash dump. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210014632.25437.43778.stgit@softrs Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Change the amount of debugging information output
when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+ apic_extnmi= [APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
+ Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
+ bsp: External NMI is delivered only to CPU 0
+ all: External NMIs are broadcast to all CPUs as a
+ backup of CPU 0
+ none: External NMI is masked for all CPUs. This is
+ useful so that a dump capture kernel won't be
+ shot down by NMI
+
autoconf= [IPV6]
See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.