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Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:56:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:56:25 +0100 From: Marc Zyngier To: Sumit Garg Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] arm64: Add framework to turn IPI as NMI In-Reply-To: <1602673931-28782-2-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org> References: <1602673931-28782-1-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org> <1602673931-28782-2-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4.9 Message-ID: X-Sender: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 51.254.78.96 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: sumit.garg@linaro.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, jason@lakedaemon.net, mark.rutland@arm.com, julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com, dianders@chromium.org, daniel.thompson@linaro.org, jason.wessel@windriver.com, msys.mizuma@gmail.com, ito-yuichi@fujitsu.com, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20201019_075628_886843_DA4C6B80 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 16.95 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, daniel.thompson@linaro.org, jason@lakedaemon.net, catalin.marinas@arm.com, ito-yuichi@fujitsu.com, dianders@chromium.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com, jason.wessel@windriver.com, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, tglx@linutronix.de, msys.mizuma@gmail.com, will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 2020-10-14 12:12, Sumit Garg wrote: > Introduce framework to turn an IPI as NMI using pseudo NMIs. In case a > particular platform doesn't support pseudo NMIs, then request IPI as a > regular IRQ. > > The main motivation for this feature is to have an IPI that can be > leveraged to invoke NMI functions on other CPUs. And current > prospective > users are NMI backtrace and KGDB CPUs round-up whose support is added > via future patches. > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h | 16 +++++++++ > arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- > arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c | 77 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h > create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c [...] > + irq_set_status_flags(ipi, IRQ_HIDDEN); Another thing is this. Why are you hiding this from /proc/interrupts? The only reason the other IPIs are hidden is that displaying them as "normal" interrupts would be a change in userspace ABI. In your case, this is something new that can perfectly appear as a standard interrupt (and I don't see how you'd display the statistics otherwise). M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel