From 8da5adda91df3d2fcc5300e68da491694c9af019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Zickus Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:52:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMI To quote Alan Cox: The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated. A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in that directory. This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least panic rather than cause problems further down the line. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 040de6bd74dd..220e20564124 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -641,6 +641,14 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = { }, #endif #if defined(CONFIG_X86) + { + .ctl_name = KERN_PANIC_ON_NMI, + .procname = "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi", + .data = &panic_on_unrecovered_nmi, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, { .ctl_name = KERN_BOOTLOADER_TYPE, .procname = "bootloader_type", -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522