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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: Perhaps a side effect regarding NMI returns
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:28:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111129212855.GR24062@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322598920.17003.71.camel@frodo>

> I'm curious to what remote events can be set by an NMI that wont take
> affect in what the NMI interrupted. I would think that NMIs should be
> treated as if they didn't exist, because they should not be calling
> anything that sets NEED_RESCHED or grabbing locks and such.

Hmm, i thought there were cases where we checked if it was in
kernel mode instead of IPIng, and assume the check is done when
returning.

But cannot come up with a concrete example right now. It may have
been wrong. Or I forgot it :)

You're right anything with interrupts should be fine because
it's just blocked.

-Andi


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-29  4:07 Perhaps a side effect regarding NMI returns Steven Rostedt
2011-11-29  4:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29  7:33   ` Paul Turner
2011-11-29 20:09   ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-29 20:12     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29 20:31       ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-29 20:36         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29 20:58           ` Steven Rostedt
2011-11-29 21:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29 21:22               ` Steven Rostedt
2011-11-29 22:14             ` Jason Baron
2011-11-29 22:51               ` Steven Rostedt
2011-11-30 11:56                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-29 20:35     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-11-29 20:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-07 16:36         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-12-07 16:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-07 17:31             ` Steven Rostedt
2011-12-07 17:48               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-07 17:51           ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-08  8:55         ` [tip:perf/core] x86: Do not schedule while still in NMI context tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2011-11-29 21:28       ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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