Re: [PATCH -v3 3/6] x86, NMI, Rewrite NMI handler

Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-12T14:15:48Z

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:51 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > No, its not making sense, there's only one event source - the NMI, it
> > doesn't make any sense what so ever to then artificially split it in
> > two.
>
> I can see that "unknown NMI" is a different kind of event than
> "NMI event triggered"
>
> e.g. the debugger would only hook into "unknown NMI"

Sure, I'm not arguing about DIE_NMI vs DIE_NMI_UNKNOWN. I simply don't
see the point of DIE_NMI_IPI.