From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753416Ab0JPR3d (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:29:33 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:53926 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753094Ab0JPR33 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:29:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] x86, NMI: Rewrite NMI handler From: Peter Zijlstra To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, ying.huang@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, dzickus@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1287195738-3136-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:29:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1287250157.1998.124.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 16:36 +0000, tip-bot for Huang Ying wrote: > Commit-ID: e21f3e4957f4a55f546873605a5caa59556bb144 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e21f3e4957f4a55f546873605a5caa59556bb144 > Author: Huang Ying > AuthorDate: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:22:16 -0400 > Committer: Ingo Molnar > CommitDate: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:01:27 +0200 > > x86, NMI: Rewrite NMI handler > > The original NMI handler is quite outdated in many aspects. This > patch tries to fix it. > > The order to process the NMI sources are changed as follow: > > notify_die(DIE_NMI_IPI); > notify_die(DIE_NMI); > /* process io port 0x61 */ > nmi_watchdog_touch(); > unknown_nmi(); NACK! I object to the DIE_NMI_IPI existance..