From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Add IOAPIC NMI support on x86_64
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:34:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070619143453.GA4243@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706191334.l5JDYKWR253517@fcbayern.americas.sgi.com>
> In our specific case, a loadable driver will register to process
> the NMI generated by a timer device on the IOAPIC pin. The driver
> will need to unmask/mask the NMI interrupt at init/exit time.
>
> The timer NMI interrupt will be used to synchronize cluster nodes.
We normally don't add hooks which are only useful for out of tree
modules unless there is a very good justification for it.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-18 21:57 [PATCH] - Add IOAPIC NMI support on x86_64 John Keller
2007-06-19 0:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-19 13:34 ` John Keller
2007-06-19 14:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-19 18:14 ` John Keller
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