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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI request/release
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:03:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB576BB.1010404@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021022150944.GC70310@compsoc.man.ac.uk

John Levon wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:02:11AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
>
>>Ok.  I'd be inclined to leave the high-usage things where they are, 
>>although it would be nice to be able to make the NMI watchdog a module. 
>>oprofile should probably stay where it is.  Do you have an alternate 
>>implementation that would be more efficient?
>>    
>>
>I'm beginning to think you're right. You should ask Keith Owens if kdb
>etc. can use your API successfully.
>
Ok.  Good thought, that would decouple kdb a little.

>>>>dev_name could be removed, although it would be nice for reporting 
>>>>
>>>Reporting what ? from where ?
>>>
>>Registered NMI users in procfs.
>>    
>>
>Then if you add such code, you can add dev_name ... I hate code that
>does nothing ...
>
Ok, I'll add a procfs interface then :-).  IMHO, there's a different 
between stuff in an interface that is looking forward and dead code, 
though.  If I added it later, I would break all the users.  But there is 
a balance.

>>Yes.  But I don't understand why they would be used in the notifier code.
>>    
>>
>I'm trying to reduce code duplication - you do basically the same thing
>notifier register/unregister does.
>
Ah.  Yes, there is some stuff that looks the same but is subtly 
different.  I'll see what I can do.

>btw, the stuff you add to header files should all be in asm-i386/nmi.h
>IMHO.
>
Ok, I agree.

>It would make it clear that there's a fast-path "set nmi handler" and
>the slow one, and you can document the difference there, if that's what
>we're going to do.
>
>regards
>john
>
>  
>
Thanks,

-Corey


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-22 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-22  1:32 [PATCH] NMI request/release Corey Minyard
2002-10-22  2:10 ` John Levon
2002-10-22  2:32   ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22  2:53     ` John Levon
2002-10-22 13:02       ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 15:09         ` John Levon
2002-10-22 16:03           ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2002-10-22 17:23         ` Robert Love
2002-10-22 18:08           ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 18:16             ` Robert Love
2002-10-22 20:04             ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 17:53         ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 18:05           ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 18:08             ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 18:29               ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 19:08                 ` John Levon
2002-10-22 21:36                   ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 3 Corey Minyard
2002-10-23 17:33                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-23 18:03                       ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-23 18:57                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-23 20:14                           ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 4 Corey Minyard
2002-10-23 20:50                             ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-23 21:53                               ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24  7:41                                 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 13:08                                   ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24  7:50                             ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 13:05                               ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 13:28                               ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 5 - I think this one's ready Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 14:46                                 ` John Levon
2002-10-24 15:36                                   ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 17:18                                     ` John Levon
2002-10-24 17:43                                       ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 18:04                                         ` John Levon
2002-10-24 18:32                                           ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 18:47                                             ` John Levon
2002-10-24 20:03                                       ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 20:29                                         ` John Levon
2002-10-25  1:22                                           ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 6 - "Well I thought the last one was ready" Corey Minyard
2002-10-25  1:39                                             ` John Levon
2002-10-25  1:58                                               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-25  2:01                                               ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 7 - minor cleanups Corey Minyard
2002-10-25 13:26                                                 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 8 Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 12:23   ` [PATCH] NMI request/release Suparna Bhattacharya

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