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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	ying.huang@intel.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:48:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6BEDFC.8000405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110228183759.GD11359@redhat.com>

On 02/28/2011 09:37 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 02:19:11PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> On 02/27/2011 04:01 AM, huang ying wrote:
>> ...
>>>>
>>>>   Probably we should put question in another fashion, ie in the fasion of
>>>> overall design -- who should be
>>>> responsible for handling external nmis, 1) the cpu which apic is configured
>>>> to observe such nmis or 2) any cpu?
>>>> If we take 1) then no lock is needed and underlied code will report real cpu
>>>> number who observed nmi. If
>>>> we take 2) then lock is needed but we need a big comment in default_do_nmi
>>>> together with probably cpu number
>>>> fixed in serr\iochk printk's.
>>>
>>> I am OK with both solutions.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Huang Ying
>>
>> ok, lets see what others think on this thread
>
> I'm trying to figure out how this affects SGI's systems which currently
> enable external NMIs to all cpu's in order to support their nmi button to
> dump cpu stacks on a system hang
> (arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c::uv_nmi_init)
>
> But feel free to post patches addressing your concerns as I am getting a
> little lost in the all the concerns being thrown back and forth.
>
> Cheers,
> Don

   I was planning to do so today but seems out of time at moment (thought I will
try ;), in particular I thought about dropping lock for a while and restore old
behaviour. *BUT* same time to put some big comment explaining why we do this
(so that Ying's work would not be wasted but rather deffered until proper apic
  reconfig implemented).

-- 
     Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 21:18 [PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: die_notifier and default_do_nmi cleanups Don Zickus
2011-01-06 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86, NMI: Add NMI symbol constants and rename memory parity to PCI SERR Don Zickus
2011-01-07 15:33   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Huang Ying
2011-01-06 21:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86: Convert some devices to use DIE_NMIUNKNOWN Don Zickus
2011-01-07 15:34   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Don Zickus
2011-01-06 21:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers Don Zickus
2011-01-07 13:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-07 14:43     ` Don Zickus
2011-01-07 14:50       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-07 17:48         ` Don Zickus
2011-01-07 15:34   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Don Zickus
2011-01-06 21:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI Don Zickus
2011-01-07 15:34   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Don Zickus
2011-01-06 21:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU Don Zickus
2011-01-07 15:34   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Don Zickus
2011-02-23  2:39   ` [PATCH 5/6] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2011-02-25 21:45     ` Don Zickus
2011-02-26  8:02     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-02-26 11:19       ` huang ying
2011-02-26 12:34         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-02-26 14:07           ` huang ying
2011-02-26 15:09             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-02-27  1:01               ` huang ying
2011-02-27 11:19                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-02-28 18:37                   ` Don Zickus
2011-02-28 18:48                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2011-01-06 21:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi() Don Zickus
2011-01-07 15:35   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Don Zickus
2011-01-07  9:53 ` [PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: die_notifier and default_do_nmi cleanups Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-01-07  9:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-12 14:43 [V2 PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU Don Zickus

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