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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Dave Peterson <dave_peterson@pobox.com>
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net,
	bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, dsp@llnl.gov,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:08:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1eke93ul3.fsf@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503202056.02429.dave_peterson@pobox.com> (Dave Peterson's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:56:02 -0800")

Dave Peterson <dave_peterson@pobox.com> writes:

> Below is an experimental 2.6.11.5 kernel patch that implements the
> following:
>
>      - A generic mechanism for safely passing information from NMI handlers
>        to code that executes outside NMI context.

See the machine check queueing implementation in
arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c. It does exactly that already.

Several other architectures already have similar mechanisms.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-21 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-21  4:56 [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API Dave Peterson
2005-03-21  7:35 ` Dave Peterson
2005-03-21 15:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-03-21 19:03   ` Dave Peterson
2005-03-21 19:07     ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-21 19:51       ` Dave Peterson

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