Re: [V6 PATCH 0/6] Fix race issues among panic, NMI and crash_kexec

2015-12-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:46:24AM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote: > Hidehiro Kawai (6): > panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI > panic/x86: Allow CPUs to save registers even if they are looping in NMI > context > kexec: Fix race between panic() and crash_kexec() c

[V6 PATCH 0/6] Fix race issues among panic, NMI and crash_kexec

2015-12-09 Thread Hidehiro Kawai
When an HA clustering software or administrator detects unresponsiveness of a host, they issue an NMI to the host to completely stop current works and take a crash dump. If the kernel has already panicked or is capturing a crash dump at that time, further NMI can cause a crash dump failure. Also,