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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/9] mce recovery for Sandy Bridge server
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:37:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306273062.2497.80.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=BrrwL=gzn7H6O1rAGJpe=VPAQRQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 14:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Right, so you can't do things like that from NMI context, but what perf
> > can do is raise a self-IPI and continue from IRQ context (question for
> > the HW folks, can there be cycles between the NMI iret and IRQ assert
> > from whatever context was before the NMI hit?)
> 
> Of course there can be - the code where the NMI hit may have
> interrupts disabled.

D'0h yes of course!..

Then I can't immediately see a way to stop a thread dead in its tracks.
Userspace yes, but not kernel-space.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 21:54 [RFC 0/9] mce recovery for Sandy Bridge server Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:02 ` [RFC 1/9] mce: fixes for mce severity table Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:12 ` [RFC 2/9] mce: save most severe error information Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:13 ` [RFC 3/9] MCE: Always retrieve mce rip before calling no_way_out Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:13 ` [RFC 4/9] MCE: Move ADDR/MISC reading code into common function Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:13 ` [RFC 5/9] MCE: Mask out address mask bits below address granuality Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:14 ` [RFC 6/9] HWPOISON: Handle hwpoison in current process Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:14 ` [RFC 7/9] MCE: Pass registers to work handlers Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:14 ` [RFC 8/9] mce: run through processors with more severe problems first Luck, Tony
2011-05-23 22:15 ` [RFC 9/9] MCE: Add Action-Required support Luck, Tony
2011-05-24  3:40 ` [RFC 0/9] mce recovery for Sandy Bridge server Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24  8:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-24 16:57   ` Luck, Tony
2011-05-24 17:33     ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-24 17:56       ` Tony Luck
2011-05-24 21:04         ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-24 21:24         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-24 21:30           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-24 21:37             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-05-24 21:41               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-24 21:48             ` Tony Luck
2011-05-25 10:02               ` Joerg Roedel
2011-05-25 13:44     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 21:43       ` Tony Luck
2011-05-25 21:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 23:53       ` Tony Luck
2011-05-26 20:16         ` Tony Luck
2011-05-25  6:03 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-25 16:44   ` Luck, Tony

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