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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/nmi: Use trylock in __register_nmi_handler() when in_nmi()
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:28:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241128092800.GB35539@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241127233455.76904-1-longman@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 06:34:55PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> The __register_nmi_handler() function can be called in NMI context from
> nmi_shootdown_cpus() leading to a lockdep splat like the following.

This seems fundamentally insane. Why are we okay with this?

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-28  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-27 23:34 [PATCH] x86/nmi: Use trylock in __register_nmi_handler() when in_nmi() Waiman Long
2024-11-28  9:28 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2024-11-29  1:06   ` Waiman Long
2024-11-29  1:55     ` Waiman Long
2024-11-29 16:57       ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-11-30  3:10         ` Waiman Long

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