[PATCH] x86-64: Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation.

This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs
are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more
than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed.

It has been succesfully tested for regression on uni, 2, 4, 8
32, and 64 CPU boxes with various memory configuration.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
index e3134bc9a4fc..282b0a8f00ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
@@ -73,6 +74,11 @@ void show_mem(void)
 
         for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
                for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; ++i) {
+                        /* this loop can take a while with 256 GB and 4k pages
+                           so update the NMI watchdog */
+                        if (unlikely(i % MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES == 0)) {
+                                touch_nmi_watchdog();
+                        }
                         page = pfn_to_page(pgdat->node_start_pfn + i);
                         total++;
                         if (PageReserved(page))