Re: [V5][PATCH 2/6] x86, nmi: create new NMI handler routines

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:36:30PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> On 09/20/2011 10:43 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> > index 68d758a..c2df58a 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
> > @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
> >  #include <linux/kprobes.h>
> >  #include <linux/kdebug.h>
> >  #include <linux/nmi.h>
> > +#include <linux/delay.h>
> > +#include <linux/hardirq.h>
> > +#include <linux/slab.h>
> >  
> >  #if defined(CONFIG_EDAC)
> >  #include <linux/edac.h>
> > @@ -21,6 +24,28 @@
> >  #include <linux/atomic.h>
> >  #include <asm/traps.h>
> >  #include <asm/mach_traps.h>
> > +#include <asm/nmi.h>
> > +
> > +#define NMI_MAX_NAMELEN	16
> > +struct nmiaction {
> > +	struct nmiaction __rcu *next;
> 
> Why not just use struct list_head here and use list_xxx_rcu family to
> operate on the list?  IMHO, that will make code simpler without much
> overhead.

Yeah, I just copied and pasted from what was in the notifier chain stuff.
Even though I don't need the previous pointer, the awkward rcu pointer
stuff would be a lot simpler to implement and read with those macros.  Let
me play with it and see what I come up with.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers,
Don