From 5211a242d0cbdded372aee59da18f80552b0a80a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kurt Garloff Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:32:11 -0700 Subject: x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error This patch introduces a new sysctl: /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi which defaults to 0 (off). When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI caused by an IO error. The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice, so one can figure out what's causing the IO error. This could be especially important to companies running IO intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a bank's databases. [ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the request of a large database vendor, for their users. ] Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 62e4ff9968b5..fba42eda8de2 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -743,6 +743,14 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "panic_on_io_nmi", + .data = &panic_on_io_nmi, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, { .ctl_name = KERN_BOOTLOADER_TYPE, .procname = "bootloader_type", -- cgit v1.2.3