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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, robert.richter@amd.com,
	gorcunov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] arch generic way to trigger unknown NMIs
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:17:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101007161748.GD6270@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101007154758.GA22385@redhat.com>

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> > > No I prefer a single one too, but there didn't seem to be a
> > > send_IPI_self() command, so I took the short route and sent it to
> > > everyone. :-(
> > 
> > You're not sending it to everyone, everyone but you.
> > 
> > Anyways for standard APIC send_IPI_cpu should be easy enough
> > to add. Standard NMI is usually to CPU #0 only.
> 
> Would that still be x86 specific though?  I could probably code that up,
> though I wonder if it would be accepted just for a test case.

The whole APIC interface is x86 specific.

"just a test case" is the wrong perspective.
Testing is important, if a feature is not tested it likely won't
work. That's especially important for anything error handling related.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-07  3:08 [RFC] arch generic way to trigger unknown NMIs Don Zickus
2010-10-07  7:26 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-07 14:01   ` Don Zickus
2010-10-07 15:11     ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-07 15:47       ` Don Zickus
2010-10-07 16:17         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-07 22:45     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-10 20:23       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-16  7:24         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-16 15:32           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-16 16:15             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-16 16:36               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-16 23:59                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-10-17  8:58                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-17 16:08                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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