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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NMI problems with Dell SMP Xeons
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:02:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5767.1148349730@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 2006 03:55:48 +0200." <200605230355.48399.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen (on Tue, 23 May 2006 03:55:48 +0200) wrote:
>nd add special cases just to get an NMI send with different vector.
>> 
>> I have never disagreed that all NMIs will end up on the NMI vector (2).
>
>The problem was that KDB had an own handler for its debug vector,
>although that was only ever called as NMI.

You are confusing KDB_ENTER (instruction code 'int 0x81') with
KDB_VECTOR (IPI).  KDB_ENTER needs its own int handler which is not an
NMI, KDB_VECTOR does not need (and does not have) its own handler, it
is handled by the NMI vector.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-23  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-22  9:08 NMI problems with Dell SMP Xeons Keith Owens
2006-05-22 23:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-23  1:26   ` Keith Owens
2006-05-23  1:55     ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-23  2:02       ` Keith Owens [this message]
2006-05-23  2:21         ` Keith Owens
2006-05-23  5:03 ` Keith Owens
2006-06-07  4:49   ` Keith Owens
2006-06-07  7:20     ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-07  7:43       ` Keith Owens
2006-06-07  8:01         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-07 11:47           ` Keith Owens
2006-06-07 12:13             ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-07 15:18         ` Brendan Trotter
2006-06-07 15:23           ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-07 18:47           ` Rajesh Shah
2006-06-08  0:41             ` Rajesh Shah
2006-06-08  0:46           ` Rajesh Shah
2006-06-08  5:11           ` Keith Owens

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