[PATCH] x86 NMI: better support for debuggers

This patch adds a notify to the die_nmi notify that the system is about to
be taken down.  If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the
system is given a new lease on life.

We also change the nmi watchdog to carry on if die_nmi returns.

This give debug code a chance to a) catch watchdog timeouts and b) possibly
allow the system to continue, realizing that the time out may be due to
debugger activities such as single stepping which is usually done with
"other" cpus held.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
index 8c242bb1ef45..8bbdbda07a2d 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -501,8 +501,11 @@ void nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs * regs)
                  */
                 alert_counter[cpu]++;
                 if (alert_counter[cpu] == 5*nmi_hz)
+                        /*
+                         * die_nmi will return ONLY if NOTIFY_STOP happens..
+                         */
                         die_nmi(regs, "NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP");
-        } else {
+
                 last_irq_sums[cpu] = sum;
                 alert_counter[cpu] = 0;
         }