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SubjectRe: [v2 PATCH 0/3] Use NMI to stop cpus
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:14:24PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> This patch series attempts to use NMI to stop cpus instead of the
> REBOOT_VECTOR irq. The idea is to have a more robust and reliable
> way to stop cpus when serializing things like the panic path.

poke? Any feedback on this now that rc-1 is out and things hopefully
calmed down a bit. :-)

Cheers,
Don

>
> More details in the changelogs.
>
> Don Zickus (3):
> x86, reboot: Use NMI instead of REBOOT_VECTOR to stop cpus
> x86, NMI: Add NMI IPI selftest
> x86, NMI: knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus
>
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 12 +++
> arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 6 +
> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/nmi_selftest.c | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/smp.c | 72 ++++++++++++++-
> arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 +
> 7 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/nmi_selftest.c
>
> --
> 1.7.6.4
>


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