Re: [PATCH -v2 7/7] x86, NMI, Remove do_nmi_callback logic

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:41:43AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 00:58 +0800, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 27.09.10 11:16:07, Don Zickus wrote:
> > > Actually die_nmi is a wrapper around panic with two important pieces.
> > > One, it dumps some registers and two it does another notifier call to
> > > DIE_NMIWATCHDOG (which correlates to another discussion in this patch
> > > series).
> > > 
> > > So if we do any consolidation between panic and die_nmi, it should be
> > > convert to die_nmi.  But then I wonder if that breaks the original
> > > semantics of 'panic_on_unrecovered_nmi'.  I don't think so though.
> > 
> > I agree, panic_on_unrecovered_nmi and unknown_nmi_panic almost do the
> > same thing, though die_nmi() is specifically for nmi handlers. In the
> > end we can consolidate both. We should then modify kernel.txt and
> > route unknown_nmi_panic to panic_on_unrecovered_nmi or vice versa.
> 
> unknown_nmi_panic will cause panic for unknown NMI (can not identify the
> NMI sources).
> 
> panic_on_unrecovered_nmi should panic for unrecovered hardware errors,
> for known and unknown NMI. For example, panic_on_unrecovered_nmi will
> cause panic in mem_parity_error too, which can be considered known NMI.
> 
> Is it reasonable?

Routing unknown_nmi_panic to panic_on_unrecovered_nmi makes sense to me,
just more difficult to type out. :-)

Cheers,
Don