Re: [tip:perf/core] x86, NMI: Rewrite NMI handler

Ingo Molnar
2010-10-16T18:20:50Z

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> 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 <ying.huang@intel.com>
> > AuthorDate: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:22:16 -0400
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > 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 The original NMI handler is quite outdated in many aspects.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..

Ok - i've zapped the commits for the time being.

Thanks,

Ingo