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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:10:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701111003.GC15958@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907010148490.23134@eddie.linux-mips.org>


* Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > >  These days an IOCK NMI typically happens in response to a PCI 
> > > SERR -- it may be useful to traverse PCI buses to find the 
> > > offender and dump this information on this occasion too.  The 
> > > south bridge may have additional status too.
> > 
> > Sure, that would be great to have.  Care to make a patch?  :)
> 
>  ENOTIME, sorry.  Next year perhaps.  Or a homework project for 
> one of the newbies. ;)

You know that this project would kill a newbie, right? :)

We have no real southbridge drivers on x86 - but we should certainly 
add some. Also, walking the PCI device tree from NMI context is 
tricky as the lists there are not NMI safe - we could crash if we 
happen to get a #IOCK while loading/unloading drivers (which is rare 
but could happen).

IMHO it's all very much desired functionality, but highly 
non-trivial.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-24 21:32 [PATCH] x86: sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error Greg KH
2009-06-25  9:16 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Add " tip-bot for Kurt Garloff
2009-06-25 18:15 ` [PATCH] x86: " Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-25 20:07   ` Greg KH
2009-06-25 20:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-25 20:16       ` Greg KH
2009-06-25 20:06 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Add " tip-bot for Kurt Garloff
2009-06-25 20:09 ` tip-bot for Kurt Garloff
2009-06-30 22:27 ` [PATCH] x86: " Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-06-30 22:30   ` Greg KH
2009-07-01  0:50     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-07-01 11:10       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-07-01 17:30         ` Jesse Barnes
2009-07-01 17:37         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-07-02  7:53           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-02 10:41             ` Borislav Petkov
2009-07-03  7:59               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-03 21:35             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-07-03  9:19         ` Kurt Garloff
2009-07-03  9:24           ` Ingo Molnar

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