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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	"'Zwane Mwaikambo'" <zwane@holomorphy.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NMI handling rework for x86
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:00:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021117020017.GA96715@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD5444E.9070808@mvista.com>

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:00:30PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:

> I have attached another patch, this one fixes my stupid bug in 
> dummy_watchdog_reset and also adds code to the NMI watchdog to not 
> handle the NMI if it has already been handled.  Again, you must do a "cd 
> arch/i386/kernel; mv nmi.c nmi_watchdog.c" before applying this patch.

I have tested this patch running oprofile on a dual box at 150,000
ints/sec and more, with nmi_watchdog=0,1,2, and couldn't reproduce any
problems.

One thing: since we have the unnatural relationship between the watchdog
and oprofile, I would much prefer that be obvious in the priority. e.g
MAX_NMI_PRIORITY, which oprofile uses, then watchdog is MAX_NMI_PRIORITY
-1. Currently the gap between the two values you use indicates it's OK
to have another handler inbetween, which it definitely isn't.

regards
john

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-17  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-15  4:30 NMI handling rework for x86 Corey Minyard
2002-11-15  4:40 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-15  6:10   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-11-15  7:40     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-15  8:13       ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-11-15  8:18         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-15  8:50           ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-11-15 17:41           ` John Levon
2002-11-15 22:46             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-15  5:12 ` John Levon
2002-11-15  5:19   ` John Levon
2002-11-15 14:13   ` Corey Minyard
2002-11-15 17:48     ` John Levon
2002-11-15 19:00       ` Corey Minyard
2002-11-15 19:28         ` John Levon
2002-11-15 19:35           ` Corey Minyard
2002-11-17  2:00         ` John Levon [this message]
2002-11-17  2:31           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-18 16:48             ` Corey Minyard
2002-11-18 15:34           ` Corey Minyard
2002-11-15  5:20 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-15  9:50 ` Mikael Pettersson

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