Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation. From: Konrad Rzeszutek This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed. It has been succesfully tested for regression on uni, 2, 4, 8 32, and 64 CPU boxes with various memory configuration. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -73,6 +74,11 @@ void show_mem(void) for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) { for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; ++i) { + /* this loop can take a while with 256 GB and 4k pages + so update the NMI watchdog */ + if (unlikely(i % MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES == 0)) { + touch_nmi_watchdog(); + } page = pfn_to_page(pgdat->node_start_pfn + i); total++; if (PageReserved(page))