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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch
Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700,
> George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>
>>I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it "fingers" out of
>>various places in the kernel. This is the final location where we have
>>a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify.
>
>
> I like the idea, but the hook should be in die_nmi(), not in the
> watchdog, using the reason that is already passed into die_nmi.
> die_nmi() is also called for a real NMI.
>
I had though that too, but it does not allow recovery (i.e. lets reset
the watchdog and try again).

Hmm.. just looked at traps.c. Seems die_nmi is NOT called from the nmi
trap, only from the watchdog. Also, there is a notify in the path to
the other nmi stuff.

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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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