Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH 1/3] stack overflow safe kdump (2.6.18-rc1-i386) - safe_smp_processor_id | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:55:32 +1000 |
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Fernando Luis =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1zquez?= Cao (on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:21:01 +0900) wrote: >That is a good idea, but I have on concern. In mach-default by default >we use __send_IPI_shortcut (no_broadcast==0) instead of send_IPI_mask. >Is it always safe to ignore the no_broadcast setting? In other words, >can __send_IPI_shortcut be replaced by send_IPI_mask safely?
It is always safe to use send_IPI_mask. It is not used by default because of concerns that send_IPI_mask may be slower than using a broadcast, although I do not know if anybody has measurements to back up that concern. OTOH I can guarantee that sending NMI as a broadcast has problems, it breaks some Dell Xeon servers[1]. My fix was to never broadcast NMI, from 2.6.18-rc1 NMI_VECTOR always uses a mask[2] and crash was changed accordingly[3].
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114828920800003&r=1&w=2 [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115103727400006&r=1&w=2 [3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115096703800003&r=1&w=2
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