[PATCH] disable NMI watchdog by default

there's a new NMI watchdog related problem: KVM crashes on certain
bzImages because ... we enable the NMI watchdog by default (even if the
user does not ask for it) , and no other OS on this planet does that so
KVM doesnt have emulation for that yet. So KVM injects a #GP, which
crashes the Linux guest:

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
 PREEMPT SMP
 Modules linked in:
 CPU:    0
 EIP:    0060:[<c011a8ae>]    Not tainted VLI
 EFLAGS: 00000246   (2.6.20-rc5-rt0 #3)
 EIP is at setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+0x26d/0x3d3

and no, i did /not/ request an nmi_watchdog on the boot command line!

Solution: turn off that darn thing! It's a debug tool, not a 'make life
harder' tool!!

with this patch the KVM guest boots up just fine.

And with this my laptop (Lenovo T60) also stopped its sporadic hard
hanging (sometimes in acpi_init(), sometimes later during bootup,
sometimes much later during actual use) as well. It hung with both
nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2, so it's generally the fact of NMI
injection that is causing problems, not the NMI watchdog variant, nor
any particular bootup code.

[ NMI breaks on some systems, esp in combination with SMM -Arjan ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/nmi.h b/include/asm-i386/nmi.h
index b04333ea6f31e9bd338b9842d1afeec1ea9f7ba4..64544cb85d6a40b4d06928a33c15728a5d265378 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-i386/nmi.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/nmi.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ extern int nmi_watchdog_tick (struct pt_regs * regs, unsigned reason);
 
 extern atomic_t nmi_active;
 extern unsigned int nmi_watchdog;
-#define NMI_DEFAULT     -1
+#define NMI_DEFAULT     0
 #define NMI_NONE       0
 #define NMI_IO_APIC    1
 #define NMI_LOCAL_APIC 2

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h b/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
index 72375e7d32a895846200ff921ebfd5e8776296bf..ceb3d8dac33d43e03d9d6f489b1592754edc8616 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/nmi.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ extern int setup_nmi_watchdog(char *);
 
 extern atomic_t nmi_active;
 extern unsigned int nmi_watchdog;
-#define NMI_DEFAULT    -1
+#define NMI_DEFAULT    0
 #define NMI_NONE       0
 #define NMI_IO_APIC    1
 #define NMI_LOCAL_APIC 2