All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/7] oprofile - NMI hook
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:36:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016163654.GA85246@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32233.1034777200@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:06:40AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:

> Both kdb and lkcd use cross cpu NMI for debugging and dumping on SMP.
> That plus oprofile and the NMI watchdog makes at least four users of
> NMI.  A one level hook is not going to cut it, it should be a list.
> 
> I admit that removal of a hook from the NMI list while still handling
> NMI interrupts is "interesting", but that is a SMOP ;).  RCU to the
> rescue?

Yep, now RCU is merged I'll read up and see if I can come up with a list
API

regards
john
-- 
"It's a cardboard universe ... and if you lean too hard against it, you fall
 through." 
	- Philip K. Dick 

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15 22:33 [PATCH] [4/7] oprofile - NMI hook John Levon
2002-10-15 22:56 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-15 23:01   ` John Levon
2002-10-15 23:18     ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-16 14:06 ` Keith Owens
2002-10-16 16:36   ` John Levon [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20021016163654.GA85246@compsoc.man.ac.uk \
    --to=levon@movementarian.org \
    --cc=kaos@ocs.com.au \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.