From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
ying.huang@intel.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI and add priorties to handlers
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:35:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101201213513.GD6478@lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101201213034.GD7218@basil.fritz.box>
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:30:34PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:41:28PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> > > When re-ordering how the NMI handles its callbacks, a conversation started
> > > asking what DIE_NMI_IPI meant. No one could answer it.
> >
...
> > Andi do you remember what the initial idea was? Didn't find any user of it
> > even in this old commit. Just curious.
>
> The original die names were pretty much a 1:1 conversion of the hooks
> used by both the external KDB and KGDB patchkits floating around
> at that time.
>
> IIRC DIE_NMI_IPI was the one that was early in the NMI handler
> and DIE_NMI late when everything else failed.
>
> So you could use NMI_IPI when you just wanted to stop
> all CPUs with a broadcast NMI and can check that reliable
> through some memory location, and NMI when you wanted
> to drop into the debugger as a last resort.
>
>
> -Andi
>
Thanks for info Andi, good to know.
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-01 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-30 22:27 [V3 PATCH 0/9] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 1/9] x86, NMI: Add NMI symbol constants and rename memory parity to PCI SERR Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86, NMI: Add touch_nmi_watchdog to io_check_error delay Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 3/9] x86, NMI: Rewrite NMI handler Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI and add priorties to handlers Don Zickus
2010-12-01 18:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-12-01 18:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-12-01 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-12-01 21:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 5/9] x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86: only call smp_processor_id in non-preempt cases Don Zickus
2010-12-01 18:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 7/9] x86: Avoid calling arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() at the same time Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 8/9] panic: ratelimit panic messages Don Zickus
2010-11-30 22:27 ` [PATCH 9/9] watchdog: touch_nmi_watchdog should only touch local cpu not every one Don Zickus
2010-12-22 3:16 ` [V3 PATCH 0/9] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift Huang Ying
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