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x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error

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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>
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Kurt Garloff 2009-06-24 14:32:11 -07:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ extern int oops_in_progress; /* If set, an oops, panic(), BUG() or die() is in
extern int panic_timeout;
extern int panic_on_oops;
extern int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
extern int panic_on_io_nmi;
extern const char *print_tainted(void);
extern void add_taint(unsigned flag);
extern int test_taint(unsigned flag);