From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mauro@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:33:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100624133323.GN578@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100624132032.GA4474@kryptos.osrc.amd.com>
> If its a critical error you do all the handling in the kernel and you
I assume you mean in MCE. And the answer is no.
MCE generally can only panic or log, everything else
needs other contexts.
> don't need task context at all, no?
Process context is needed for various recovery schemes, all
that need to sleep for example.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-24 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-24 3:04 [RFC 1/5] Make soft_irq NMI safe Huang Ying
2010-06-24 3:04 ` [RFC 2/5] NMI return notifier Huang Ying
2010-06-24 3:04 ` [RFC 3/5] x86, trigger NMI return notifier soft_irq earlier Huang Ying
2010-06-24 6:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 3:04 ` [RFC 4/5] x86, Use NMI return notifier in MCE Huang Ying
2010-06-24 10:00 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 3:04 ` [RFC 5/5] Use NMI return notifier in perf pending Huang Ying
2010-06-24 6:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 6:09 ` [RFC 1/5] Make soft_irq NMI safe Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 6:45 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24 6:35 ` [RFC][PATCH] irq_work Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 6:43 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24 6:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 6:50 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24 6:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 7:04 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24 7:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 7:27 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-24 7:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 10:27 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 10:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:08 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 11:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 11:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:55 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 11:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 12:02 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 12:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 12:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 11:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 11:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24 12:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 13:02 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 13:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-24 13:33 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-06-24 13:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-24 14:01 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-24 15:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-24 16:09 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 2:12 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-25 7:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 9:17 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-25 9:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-25 9:30 ` Huang Ying
2010-06-25 9:44 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-25 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 11:58 ` huang ying
2010-06-25 9:08 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 18:30 ` [RFC][PATCH] irq_work -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 19:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-25 19:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 22:29 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-26 8:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-26 10:08 ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-26 10:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25 19:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-26 1:26 ` huang ying
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