From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao" <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
mingo@elte.hu, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:41:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1eht31z8e.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F573E74.5040504@oss.ntt.co.jp> ("Fernando Luis =?utf-8?Q?V?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A1zquez?= Cao"'s message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:54:44 +0900")
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> Subject: [PATCH] boot: ignore early NMIs
>
> From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
>
> NMIs very early in the boot process are rarely critical (usually
> it just means that there was a spurious bit flip somewhere in the
> hardware, or that this is a kdump kernel and we received an NMI
> generated in the previous context), so the current behavior of
> halting the system when one occurs is probably a bit over the top.
>
> This patch changes the early IDT so that NMIs are ignored and the
> kernel can, hopefully, continue executing other code. Harsher
> measures (panic, etc) are defered to the final NMI handler, which
> can actually make an informed decision.
>
> This issue presented itself in our environment as seemingly
> random hangs in kdump.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
> ---
>
> diff -urNp linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
> --- linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c 2012-03-07 15:49:01.834241787 +0900
> +++ linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c 2012-03-07 18:39:03.173732875 +0900
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * r
> (__START_KERNEL & PGDIR_MASK)));
> BUILD_BUG_ON(__fix_to_virt(__end_of_fixed_addresses) <= MODULES_END);
>
> - /* clear bss before set_intr_gate with early_idt_handler */
> + /* clear bss before set_intr_gate with early_idt_handlers */
> clear_bss();
>
> /* Make NULL pointers segfault */
> @@ -79,13 +79,8 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * r
>
> max_pfn_mapped = KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> - for (i = 0; i < NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS; i++) {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
> + for (i = 0; i < NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS; i++)
> set_intr_gate(i, &early_idt_handlers[i]);
> -#else
> - set_intr_gate(i, early_idt_handler);
> -#endif
> - }
> load_idt((const struct desc_ptr *)&idt_descr);
>
> if (console_loglevel == 10)
> diff -urNp linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> --- linux-3.3-rc6-orig/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S 2012-03-07 15:49:01.838241839 +0900
> +++ linux-3.3-rc6/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S 2012-03-07 18:41:21.811516876 +0900
> @@ -270,18 +270,29 @@ bad_address:
> jmp bad_address
>
> .section ".init.text","ax"
> -#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
> .globl early_idt_handlers
> early_idt_handlers:
> - i = 0
> + vector = 0
> .rept NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS
> - movl $i, %esi
> - jmp early_idt_handler
> - i = i + 1
> + /*
> + * NMIs (vector 2) this early in the boot process are rarely critical
> + * (usually it just means that there was a spurious bit flip somewhere
> + * in the hardware, or that this is a kdump kernel and we received an
> + * NMI generated in the previous context), so we ignore them here and
> + * try to continue (see early_nmi_handler implementation below).
> + * Harsher measures (panic, etc) are defered to the final NMI handler,
> + * which can actually make an informed decision.
> + */
> + .if vector == 2
> + jmp early_nmi_handler
Is just a jump and not a move followed by a jump still 10 bytes?
I hate to say it but I think this fails miserably for any exception
after a nmi.
I expect the simplest solution is to modify early_idt_handler to test
for vector == 2.
Doing something less brittle than:
> extern const char early_idt_handlers[NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS][10];
in segment.h might be a good idea as well.
Eric
> + .else
> + movl $vector, %esi
> + jmp early_exception_handler
> + .endif
> + vector = vector + 1
> .endr
> -#endif
>
> -ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
> +early_exception_handler:
> #ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
> cmpl $2,early_recursion_flag(%rip)
> jz 1f
> @@ -315,6 +326,9 @@ ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
> 1: hlt
> jmp 1b
>
> +early_nmi_handler:
> + iretq
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
> early_recursion_flag:
> .long 0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <tip-d9bc9be89629445758670220787683e37c93f6c1@git.kernel.org>
2012-02-12 1:04 ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/kdump: No need to disable ioapic/ lapic in crash path Yinghai Lu
2012-02-12 3:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-12 4:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-13 12:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-13 16:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-13 18:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-16 17:27 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-16 21:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-16 21:56 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-17 3:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-17 12:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-17 15:49 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2012-02-17 20:18 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-20 5:17 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2012-02-20 15:24 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-17 19:54 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-18 3:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-20 15:14 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-21 8:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-21 13:59 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-29 23:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-07 10:53 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-07 10:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-07 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] boot: add early NMI counter Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-08 4:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 6:00 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-08 4:41 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2012-03-08 5:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-08 16:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-09 9:31 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 9:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] boot: fortify early_idt_handlers definition Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 9:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] boot: ignore early NMIs Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 10:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] boot: add early NMI counter Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 20:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 5:43 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-12 5:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 6:14 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-12 13:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-12 19:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-12 19:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-12 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 18:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 20:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-12 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-12 20:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-13 2:11 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-13 13:33 ` Don Zickus
2012-03-15 0:43 ` Simon Horman
2012-03-13 1:43 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-12 14:41 ` Don Zickus
2012-03-07 15:50 ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/kdump: No need to disable ioapic/ lapic in crash path Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 18:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-08 1:29 ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2012-03-09 0:59 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
2012-03-09 2:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-12 11:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-13 15:28 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-13 16:52 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-13 22:12 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-13 22:51 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-16 2:53 ` Don Zickus
2012-02-16 18:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-02-16 21:41 ` Don Zickus
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