From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:12:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100614151232.GQ4894@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614144403.GA369@basil.fritz.box>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:44:03PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I think the perf event subsytem can log events in NMI context already and
> > deliver them to userspace when the NMI is done. This is why I think Ingo
> > wants MCE to be updated to sit on top of the perf event subsytem to avoid
> > re-invent everything again.
>
> perf is not solving the problem this is trying to solve.
>
> > Then again I do not know enough about the MCE stuff to understand what you
> > mean when an event comes in but you can't handle it in an NMI-safe
> > context. An example would be helpful.
>
> At least for MCE hwpoison recovery needs to sleep and you obviously cannot sleep in
> NMI like context. The way it's done is to first do a self interrupt, then do a work queue
> wakeup and finally the sleeping operations.
>
> perf does not fit into this because it has no way to process such an event
> inside the kernel.
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the example.
Cheers,
Don
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-12 9:28 [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism Huang Ying
2010-06-12 9:28 ` [RFC 2/3] Use unified NMI delayed call mechanism in MCE handler Huang Ying
2010-06-12 9:28 ` [RFC 3/3] Use unified NMI delayed call mechanism in perf event NMI handler Huang Ying
2010-06-12 10:25 ` [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism Ingo Molnar
2010-06-13 1:54 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-14 3:45 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2010-06-14 13:54 ` Don Zickus
2010-06-14 14:44 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-14 15:12 ` Don Zickus [this message]
2010-06-18 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-18 9:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-18 11:34 ` huang ying
2010-06-18 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-18 13:40 ` huang ying
2010-06-18 14:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-18 15:16 ` huang ying
2010-06-18 15:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-19 1:51 ` huang ying
2010-06-19 8:02 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-19 10:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-19 14:07 ` huang ying
2010-06-19 14:24 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-18 11:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-18 12:25 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-18 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-18 13:09 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-18 13:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-18 13:23 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-18 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-18 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-19 14:17 ` Andi Kleen
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