Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:57:18 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling |
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:57 -0600 Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
> > Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog > timeouts via an NMI. This add config options to know if there > is the ability to receive NMIs and if it has an NMI post processing > call. Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog to take advantage of > this so that it can know if an NMI comes in. > > It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works. > > Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> > > Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.19-rc6.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug > +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug > @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT > bool > default y > > +config HAVE_STANDARD_NOTIFY_DIE > + bool > + default y > +
This is all fairly unpleasant.
What architecture is preventing us from using DIE_NMI_POST on all architectures which support ipmi? ia64?
It would be better to simply require that all ipmi-using architectures implement notify_die(DIE_NMI_POST, ...).
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