[V4 PATCH 4/4] x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Wed Sep 30 04:55:48 PDT 2015


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 08:28:11PM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> This patch introduces new boot option "noextnmi" which disables
> external NMI.  This option is useful for the dump capture kernel
> so that an HA application or administrator wouldn't mistakenly
> shoot down the kernel by NMI.

So that they can get really stuck when the crash kernel crashes, right?
;-)



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