From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 5/6] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error with unknown NMI
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:25:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74508.1284413121@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:49:52 +0200." <20100913224952.442d7a24@basil.nowhere.org>
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:49:52 +0200, Andi Kleen said:
> > > That's already supported in MCE -- saving the error record to NVRAM
> > > and logging it after reboot. NMI should probably do the same.
> > > It's much nicer than getting it from a console.
> >
> > Hmm, that assumes these boxes have NVRAM. I am not sure if many of
> > the boxes I see with problems have NVRAM on them.
>
> Practically every PC has a small amount of NVRAM.
The big question is how much NVRAM the PC has that is safe for our NMI code to
hijack/borrow across the reboot without scrogging something that the BIOS has
squirreled away in there. I recall one patch that saved progress indicators during
early boot or something - but at the expense of stomping on the saved clock
settings or whatever so you rebooted and then you knew where your previos boot
wedged, but your system thought it was 1970 again.
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 2:51 [RFC 1/6] x86, NMI, Add symbol definition for NMI magic constants Huang Ying
2010-09-10 2:51 ` [RFC 2/6] x86, NMI, Add touch_nmi_watchdog to io_check_error delay Huang Ying
2010-09-10 2:51 ` [RFC 3/6] x86, NMI, Rename memory parity error to PCI SERR error Huang Ying
2010-09-13 1:02 ` Robert Richter
2010-09-13 2:02 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-16 8:18 ` Robert Richter
2010-09-17 0:08 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-17 9:14 ` Robert Richter
2010-09-19 0:20 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-20 8:00 ` Robert Richter
2010-09-20 12:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-09-21 0:22 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-21 6:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-09-21 14:08 ` Doug Thompson
2010-09-21 23:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-09-23 5:37 ` huang ying
2010-09-29 0:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-09-10 2:51 ` [RFC 4/6] x86, NMI, Rewrite NMI handler Huang Ying
2010-09-10 15:56 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-10 16:03 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-10 18:29 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 2:09 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-13 14:04 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-14 5:12 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-14 13:37 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 1:16 ` Robert Richter
2010-09-10 2:51 ` [RFC 5/6] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error with unknown NMI Huang Ying
2010-09-10 16:02 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-10 16:19 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-10 18:40 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 2:19 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-13 14:11 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 15:24 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 15:47 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 16:57 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 17:53 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 18:07 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 18:23 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 18:36 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 19:36 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 20:49 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 21:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2010-09-14 7:48 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-14 17:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-14 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-14 13:45 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-14 19:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-09-15 9:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-10 2:51 ` [RFC 6/6] x86, NMI, Remove do_nmi_callback logic Huang Ying
2010-09-10 16:13 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-13 2:27 ` Huang Ying
2010-09-13 6:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-10 20:37 ` [RFC 1/6] x86, NMI, Add symbol definition for NMI magic constants Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-10 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-11 8:50 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-13 1:30 ` Robert Richter
2010-09-21 21:48 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-21 22:19 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-22 16:07 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-23 9:29 ` huang ying
2010-09-23 14:16 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-24 11:50 ` huang ying
2010-09-24 14:29 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-23 9:51 ` huang ying
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2010-09-14 14:31 [RFC 5/6] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error with unknown NMI Andi Kleen
2010-09-14 15:17 ` Don Zickus
2010-09-14 17:40 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-14 17:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-09-15 5:06 ` Huang Ying
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