Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:25:09 -0500 | From | Don Zickus <> | Subject | Re: [v2 PATCH 0/3] Use NMI to stop cpus |
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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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