Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:20:33 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: NMI handling rework for x86 |
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Corey Minyard wrote:
| Linus, | | John Levon suggested I send this to you. It's a cleanup of the NMI | handling to make it into a request/release mechanism (instead of | hard-coding everything into traps.c). It renames "nmi.c" to | "nmi_watchdog.c" (as it should be named) and moves the real NMI handling | code from traps.c to nmi.c. It's been posted and reworked on lkml, and | it seems to have finally met approval. The "cc-ed" people have reviewed | the patch (or at least made helpful suggestions :-). | | Since a lot of things are hacking into this code (lkcd, kdb, oprofile, | nmi watchdog, and now my IPMI watchdog pretimeout), it would be very | nice to get their junk out of this code and allow them to bind in | nicely, and allow binding from modules.
Switching topics: Where is the watchdog pretimeout interface ("API") defined? Has there been any discussion of it?
| (And this time it's a -p1 diff)
Looks like a -p0 diff to me.
-- ~Randy
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