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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Switch APIC (+nmi, +oprofile) to driver model
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:11:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030209141142.GA24374@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302091407.PAA14076@kim.it.uu.se>

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:07:27PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> I don't like the idea of registering apic_driver when !cpu_has_apic,
> but it might be needed for the local-APIC NMI watchdog.

Really ?

> >+#define NMI_LOCAL_APIC_SUSPENDED_BY_OPROFILE	4
> 
> This is ugly like h*ll. Surely oprofile could just do:
> 
> static unsigned int prev_nmi_watchdog;
> ..
> prev_nmi_watchdog = nmi_watchdog;

as long as it's exported to modules. I'd probably prefer
to just have :

	disable_nmi_watchdog();
	...
	enable_nmi_watchdog();

and have those do the right thing depending on a (nmi.c local)
nmi_watchdog.

regards,
john

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-09 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-09 14:07 Switch APIC (+nmi, +oprofile) to driver model Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-09 14:11 ` John Levon [this message]
2003-02-10 11:01 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-10 11:50   ` John Levon
2003-02-10 20:06     ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:12       ` John Levon
2003-02-11 12:01         ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-13 13:39           ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-13 13:46             ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14  9:08             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-02-14 10:32               ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-14 10:54                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-02-14 11:25                   ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-14 11:32                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-02-16 12:05             ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-10 16:10 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:43   ` Mikael Pettersson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-16 12:43 Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-16 16:01 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-26 21:59 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-10 19:05 Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-11 11:39 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-11 11:53 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-09 14:42 Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-09 11:32 Pavel Machek
2003-02-09 11:54 ` John Levon
2003-02-09 12:03 ` John Levon

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