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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2007-07-22 05:12:32 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-22 14:03:37 -0400
commit8f4e956b313dcccbc7be6f10808952345e3b638c (patch)
treecc8c93fa1faf5e0b608e3a21330a32bd82fe6f47 /include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
parent19d36ccdc34f5ed444f8a6af0cbfdb6790eb1177 (diff)
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-x86_64/nmi.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h b/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
index d0a7f53b1497..5fb3c0de5ccc 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
@@ -88,5 +88,7 @@ unsigned lapic_adjust_nmi_hz(unsigned hz);
88int lapic_watchdog_ok(void); 88int lapic_watchdog_ok(void);
89void disable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(void); 89void disable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(void);
90void enable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(void); 90void enable_lapic_nmi_watchdog(void);
91void stop_nmi(void);
92void restart_nmi(void);
91 93
92#endif /* ASM_NMI_H */ 94#endif /* ASM_NMI_H */