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I will drop patch #1 and #2 and use this one (with a commit log > and some more tests), given it's based on the work of Joel, Lyude and > me, would the following tags make sense to all of you? > > Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes I don't know, I am not a big fan of the alternative patch because it adds a per-cpu counter anyway if !CONFIG_PREEMPT_LONG [1]. And it is also a much bigger patch than the one I wrote. Purely from an objective perspective, I would still want to keep my original patch because it is simple. What is really the objection to it? [1] +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_LONG +/* + * Any 32bit architecture that still cares about performance should + * probably ensure this is near preempt_count. + */ +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, nmi_nesting); +#endif Thanks, -- Joel Fernandes