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>

arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include "dumpstack.h"
 
 int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
+int panic_on_io_nmi;
 unsigned int code_bytes = 64;
 int kstack_depth_to_print = 3 * STACKSLOTS_PER_LINE;
 static int die_counter;

arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

@@ -346,6 +346,9 @@ io_check_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	printk(KERN_EMERG "NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)\n");
 	show_registers(regs);
 
+	if (panic_on_io_nmi)
+		panic("NMI IOCK error: Not continuing");
+
 	/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */
 	reason = (reason & 0xf) | 8;
 	outb(reason, 0x61);

include/linux/kernel.h

@@ -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);

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",