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authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>2007-10-18 14:07:10 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 01:37:32 +0400
commit612b5a8d3a57d07698ceec0e307a84f38b241fe2 (patch)
treebd7d44b88e00dd8f6fb7ad7afaa9053ac875c317 /Documentation
parentfcfa4724116589d6a5fac92af410b6f12d41b5bb (diff)
downloadlinux-612b5a8d3a57d07698ceec0e307a84f38b241fe2.tar.xz
IPMI: new NMI handling
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an NMI. This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs and if it has an NMI post processing call. Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in. It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
index 83b05459eb5c..bc38283379f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
@@ -584,9 +584,11 @@ The watchdog will panic and start a 120 second reset timeout if it
gets a pre-action. During a panic or a reboot, the watchdog will
start a 120 timer if it is running to make sure the reboot occurs.
-Note that if you use the NMI preaction for the watchdog, you MUST
-NOT use nmi watchdog mode 1. If you use the NMI watchdog, you
-must use mode 2.
+Note that if you use the NMI preaction for the watchdog, you MUST NOT
+use the nmi watchdog. There is no reasonable way to tell if an NMI
+comes from the IPMI controller, so it must assume that if it gets an
+otherwise unhandled NMI, it must be from IPMI and it will panic
+immediately.
Once you open the watchdog timer, you must write a 'V' character to the
device to close it, or the timer will not stop. This is a new semantic