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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [V5][PATCH 3/6] x86, nmi: wire up NMI handlers to new routines
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On 09/20/2011 10:43 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> Just convert all the files that have an nmi handler to the new routines.
> Most of it is straight forward conversion.  A couple of places needed some
> tweaking like kgdb which separates the debug notifier from the nmi handler
> and mce removes a call to notify_die (as I couldn't figure out why it was
> there).

It is used to call a debugger on a machine check, according to following
thread:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/27/114

So maybe we can turn that into a kgdb direct call?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying