Re: [patch 2.6.17] Standardize i386/x86_64 handling of NMI_VECTOR

[Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>]

Andi Kleen (on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:59:46 +0200) wrote:
>On Thursday 22 June 2006 13:46, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Andi Kleen (on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:48:21 +0200) wrote:
>> >On Thursday 22 June 2006 11:01, Keith Owens wrote:
>> >> x86_64 and i386 behave inconsistently when sending an IPI on vector 2
>> >> (NMI_VECTOR).  Make both behave the same, so IPI 2 is sent as NMI.
>> >> 
>> >> The crash code was abusing send_IPI_allbutself() by passing a code
>> >> instead of a vector, it only worked because crash knew about the
>> >> internal code of send_IPI_allbutself().  Change crash to use NMI_VECTOR
>> >> instead, and remove the comment about how crash was abusing the function.
>> >
>> >Does that fix anything? 
>> 
>> This patch is a pre-requisite for fixing the problem where sending an
>> IPI as NMI would reboot some Dell Xeon systems.  I cannot fix that
>> problem while crash continus to abuse send_IPI_allbutself().
>
>I merged it with the updated description. Thanks.

Merged how much and into which tree?  Most of the change is i386, with
a one line change to x86_64.  I have to ensure that the i386 bits get
into the main tree.