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| author | Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> | 2009-06-24 14:32:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-25 22:06:11 +0200 |
| commit | 5211a242d0cbdded372aee59da18f80552b0a80a (patch) | |
| tree | 5d2a853e538b8478648a57efe94ef049e76e13e6 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | 9c26f52b900f7207135bafc8789e1a4f5d43e096 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5211a242d0cbdded372aee59da18f80552b0a80a.tar.gz lwn-5211a242d0cbdded372aee59da18f80552b0a80a.zip | |
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 <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 62e4ff9968b5..fba42eda8de2 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -744,6 +744,14 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .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", .data = &bootloader_type, |