Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism

Andi Kleen
2010-06-14T14:44:10Z

> I think the perf event subsytem can log events in NMI context already and
> deliver them to userspace when the NMI is done. This is why I think Ingo
> wants MCE to be updated to sit on top of the perf event subsytem to avoid
> re-invent everything again.

perf is not solving the problem this is trying to solve.

> Then again I do not know enough about the MCE stuff to understand what you
> mean when an event comes in but you can't handle it in an NMI-safe
> context. An example would be helpful.

At least for MCE hwpoison recovery needs to sleep and you obviously cannot sleep in
NMI like context. The way it's done is to first do a self interrupt, then do a work queue
wakeup and finally the sleeping operations.

perf does not fit into this because it has no way to process such an event
inside the kernel.

Anyways this just cleans up the existing mechanism to share some code.

-Andi

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