[PATCH] x86_64: Avoid broadcasting NMI IPIs

On some i386/x86_64 systems, sending an NMI IPI as a broadcast will
reset the system.  This seems to be a BIOS bug which affects machines
where one or more cpus are not under OS control.  It occurs on HT
systems with a version of the OS that is not compiled without HT
support.  It also occurs when a system is booted with max_cpus=n where
2 <= n < cpus known to the BIOS.  The fix is to always send NMI IPI as
a mask instead of as a broadcast.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h b/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h
index a1d0072e36bc..0dba244c86db 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_MACH_IPI_H
 #define __ASM_MACH_IPI_H
 
+/* Avoid include hell */
+#define NMI_VECTOR 0x02
+
 void send_IPI_mask_bitmask(cpumask_t mask, int vector);
 void __send_IPI_shortcut(unsigned int shortcut, int vector);
 
@@ -13,7 +16,7 @@ static inline void send_IPI_mask(cpumask_t mask, int vector)
 
 static inline void __local_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector)
 {
-        if (no_broadcast) {
+        if (no_broadcast || vector == NMI_VECTOR) {
                 cpumask_t mask = cpu_online_map;
 
                 cpu_clear(smp_processor_id(), mask);
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ static inline void __local_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector)
 
 static inline void __local_send_IPI_all(int vector)
 {
-        if (no_broadcast)
+        if (no_broadcast || vector == NMI_VECTOR)
                 send_IPI_mask(cpu_online_map, vector);
         else
                 __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLINC, vector);