Re: IOMMU+DMAR causing NMIs-s (was: 4.7-rc6: NMI in intel_idle on HP Proliant G6)

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Wed Jul 13 2016 - 05:38:53 EST


> > > Can you probably use the faulty config and bisect this down to a
> > > specific commit? In v4.7-rc1 some changes to the iova-allocation code
> > > got merged, but I have no idea how those could cause NMIs.
> >
> > Will try but I do not know a working base yet - this was broken in both
> > 4.6 and 4.7-rc.
>
> Oh, in that case it is not related to the recent iova changes. Does the
> box have any hardware error log which you can access and send to us
> (right after some NMIs happened)?

Just got http://kodu.ut.ee/~mroos/4.6-dmar-fault2.png when playing with
BIOS settings (disabling NUMA). It is the first time I see at least some
info in NMI decode.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)