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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>
Cc: "Ong, Soo Keong" <soo.keong.ong@intel.com>,
	"Gross, Mark" <mark.gross@intel.com>,
	bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Carbonari, Steven" <steven.carbonari@intel.com>,
	"Wang, Zhenyu Z" <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with EDAC coexisting with BIOS
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 22:44:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146692646.14636.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4459119D.10905@buttersideup.com>

On Mer, 2006-05-03 at 21:25 +0100, Tim Small wrote:
> something with NMI-signalled errors, I was wondering what the problems 
> with using NMI-signalled ECC errors were?

The big problem with NMI is that it can occur *during* a PCI
configuration sequence (ie during pci_config_* functions). That means we
can't safely do some I/O, especially configuration space I/O in an NMI
handler. At best we could set a flag and catch it afterwards.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-24 14:15 Problems with EDAC coexisting with BIOS Ong, Soo Keong
2006-04-24 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-03 20:25   ` Tim Small
2006-05-03 20:37     ` thockin
2006-05-04  9:45       ` Tim Small
2006-05-03 21:44     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-04  9:02       ` Tim Small
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-04 16:44 David Peterson
2006-05-03 23:06 David Peterson
2006-05-03 22:22 Doug Thompson
2006-05-03 21:39 Doug Thompson
2006-05-03 20:49 Gross, Mark
2006-04-26  3:24 Gross, Mark
2006-04-26  3:19 Gross, Mark
2006-04-25 23:25 Gross, Mark
2006-04-26  2:19 ` Corey Minyard
2006-04-26  2:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-26 18:26   ` mark gross
2006-04-26 18:38     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-26 19:39       ` mark gross
2006-04-26 20:17         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-25 21:24 Gross, Mark
2006-04-25 22:39 ` Corey Minyard
2006-04-25 20:22 Gross, Mark
2006-04-25 18:19 Gross, Mark
2006-04-25 19:55 ` Corey Minyard
2006-04-24 18:14 Gross, Mark
2006-04-24 15:57 Gross, Mark
2006-04-24 17:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-24 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-24 14:32 Ong, Soo Keong
2006-04-24 13:59 Ong, Soo Keong
2006-04-24 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-23  1:44 Gross, Mark
2006-04-21 22:36 Doug Thompson
2006-04-21 22:20 Gross, Mark
2006-04-22 18:31 ` Tim Small
2006-04-21 21:42 Doug Thompson
2006-04-21 21:32 Gross, Mark
2006-04-21 20:57 Doug Thompson
2006-04-21 16:01 Gross, Mark
2006-04-21 21:13 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-04-24 13:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-24 17:38   ` Doug Thompson

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