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From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:16:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E9ADB8.1010501@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4162.1122601822@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, 
> George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it "fingers" out of 
>>various places in the kernel.  This is the final location where we have 
>>a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify.
> 
> 
> I like the idea, but the hook should be in die_nmi(), not in the
> watchdog, using the reason that is already passed into die_nmi.
> die_nmi() is also called for a real NMI.
> 
I had though that too, but it does not allow recovery (i.e. lets reset 
the watchdog and try again).

Hmm.. just looked at traps.c.  Seems die_nmi is NOT called from the nmi 
trap, only from the watchdog.  Also, there is a notify in the path to 
the other nmi stuff.

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
HRT (High-res-timers):  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-29  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-28 20:31 [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch George Anzinger
2005-07-28 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-28 23:58   ` George Anzinger
2005-07-29  0:12     ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-29  1:50 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-29  4:16   ` George Anzinger [this message]
2005-07-29  5:09     ` Keith Owens
2005-07-29  5:14       ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-29 20:55         ` George Anzinger
2005-07-30  3:24           ` Keith Owens
2005-08-01 22:58             ` George Anzinger
2005-08-02 20:26               ` [PATCH] " George Anzinger

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