* Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:31:59AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Because in this particular case it does not appear to be so: the reason for
> > the
> > BIOS/firmware call appears to be to determine how we nmi_panic() after
> > receiving
> > an NMI that no other NMI handler handled: with a passive-aggressive "I
> > don't know"
> > panic message or with a slightly more informative panic message.
>
> However much I like just ripping all that out, I think the ROM call
> actually does that logging, or that is how I read things.
>
> If you look at the original Changelog for that driver:
>
> Hp is providing a Hardware WatchDog Timer driver that will only work with
> the
> specific HW Timer located in the HP ProLiant iLO 2 ASIC. The iLO 2 HW
> Timer
> will generate a Non-maskable Interrupt (NMI) 9 seconds before physically
> resetting the server, by removing power, so that the event can be logged
> to
> the HP Integrated Management Log (IML), a Non-Volatile Random Access
> Memory
> (NVRAM). The logging of the event is performed using the HP ProLiant ROM
> via
> an Industry Standard access known as a BIOS Service Directory Entry.
Ok, that appears to be the case, too bad.
But the good news: if this callback is executed only once per system lifetime
then
we don't actually have to perform *any* modification on this driver, right? The
reason is that this callback will panic unconditionally after performing the
BIOS
call. The control flow to the panic is unconditional:
spin_lock_irqsave(&rom_lock, rom_pl);
if (!die_nmi_called && !is_icru && !is_uefi)
asminline_call(&cmn_regs, cru_rom_addr);
...
if (!is_icru && !is_uefi) {
if (cmn_regs.u1.ral == 0) {
nmi_panic(regs, "An NMI occurred, but unable to
determine source.\n");
...
nmi_panic(regs, "An NMI occurred. Depending on your system the reason "
"for the NMI is logged in any one of the following "
"resources:\n"
"1. Integrated Management Log (IML)\n"
"2. OA Syslog\n"
"3. OA Forward Progress Log\n"
"4. iLO Event Log");
This callback does not get executed when we get perf NMIs, correct?
Ingo
