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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2007-07-22 09:12:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-22 18:03:37 (GMT) |
| commit | 8f4e956b313dcccbc7be6f10808952345e3b638c (patch) | |
| tree | cc8c93fa1faf5e0b608e3a21330a32bd82fe6f47 /include/asm-i386 | |
| parent | 19d36ccdc34f5ed444f8a6af0cbfdb6790eb1177 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8f4e956b313dcccbc7be6f10808952345e3b638c.tar.xz | |
x86: Stop MCEs and NMIs during code patching
When a machine check or NMI occurs while multiple byte code is patched
the CPU could theoretically see an inconsistent instruction and crash.
Prevent this by temporarily disabling MCEs and returning early in the
NMI handler.
Based on discussion with Mathieu Desnoyers.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/mce.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/nmi.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/mce.h b/include/asm-i386/mce.h index b0a02ee..d56d897 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/mce.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/mce.h @@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ extern void mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c); #endif extern int mce_disabled; + +extern void stop_mce(void); +extern void restart_mce(void); + diff --git a/include/asm-i386/nmi.h b/include/asm-i386/nmi.h index fb1e133..ff30c98 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/nmi.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/nmi.h @@ -57,5 +57,7 @@ unsigned lapic_adjust_nmi_hz(unsigned hz); int lapic_watchdog_ok(void); void disable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(void); void enable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(void); +void stop_nmi(void); +void restart_nmi(void); #endif /* ASM_NMI_H */ |