Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:57:10 -0600 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Notifier for significant events on i386 |
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Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:
>Andi, > >Isn't this a problem on x86_64 too? What is there to prevent a >handler from being removed from the notifier list while it >is being used to call the handler on another CPU? > >I am considering using a RCU-based list for notifier chains. >Corey has done some work on these lines to add NMI notifier >chain, I think it should be generalised on for all notifiers. > >Thoughts? Comments? > > This is probably a good idea. I won't be able to work on it for a while, but you can grab my patch at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/, look under the 2.5 releases for the most current linux-nmi-2.5.xx-vyy.diff.
-Corey
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