Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:04:40 +0400 | | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | | Subject | Re: nmi_watchdog suspicious | |
[Maciej W. Rozycki - Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 02:54:38AM +0100]
| On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
|
| > If you mean the case we get NMI physical line assetred while configuring APIC
| > (ie nmi watchdog is not properly configured yet) then I wonder why we has
| > this checking at all...
|
| Hmm, I am not sure what you mean -- nmi_watchdog_tick() can be called
| potentially at any time, and you can receive NMIs from sources other than
| the watchdog; the latters would set bits in the Port B at 0x61 in most
| cases though. Anyway using a separate variable such as
| "nmi_watchdog_active" would be cleaner.
|
| Maciej
|
ok, thanks Maciej, i'll take a look on this.
- Cyrill -
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