From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.17] Standardize i386/x86_64 handling of NMI_VECTOR
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:59:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606221359.46092.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18463.1150976798@ocs3.ocs.com.au>
On Thursday 22 June 2006 13:46, Keith Owens wrote:
> Andi Kleen (on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:48:21 +0200) wrote:
> >On Thursday 22 June 2006 11:01, Keith Owens wrote:
> >> x86_64 and i386 behave inconsistently when sending an IPI on vector 2
> >> (NMI_VECTOR). Make both behave the same, so IPI 2 is sent as NMI.
> >>
> >> The crash code was abusing send_IPI_allbutself() by passing a code
> >> instead of a vector, it only worked because crash knew about the
> >> internal code of send_IPI_allbutself(). Change crash to use NMI_VECTOR
> >> instead, and remove the comment about how crash was abusing the function.
> >
> >Does that fix anything?
>
> This patch is a pre-requisite for fixing the problem where sending an
> IPI as NMI would reboot some Dell Xeon systems. I cannot fix that
> problem while crash continus to abuse send_IPI_allbutself().
I merged it with the updated description. Thanks.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-22 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 9:01 [patch 2.6.17] Standardize i386/x86_64 handling of NMI_VECTOR Keith Owens
2006-06-22 10:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-22 11:46 ` Keith Owens
2006-06-22 11:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-06-22 12:09 ` Keith Owens
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