Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH 0/7]: Fix for unsafe notifier chain

Paul E. McKenney
2005-11-28T05:05:18Z

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:59:22AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:57:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Any options I missed?
> >
> > Stop using the notifier chains from NMI context - it's too hard. Use a
> > fixed-size array in the NMI code instead.
>
> Or just don't unregister. That is what I did for the debug notifiers.

So the thought is to replicate the notifier code in all non-NMI subsystems
that require it?

Thanx, Paul