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SubjectRe: [RFC 4/6] x86, NMI, Rewrite NMI handler
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:51:03AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> The original NMI handler is quite outdated in many aspects. This patch
> try to fix it.
>
> In original code, NMI reason io port (0x61) is only processed on
> BSP. This makes it impossible to hot-remove BSP. To solve the issue,
> a raw spinlock is used to make the port can be processed on any CPU.

Do we really want to use a spinlock inside the nmi handler?

I thought the NMIs sent to the io port are only routed to one cpu as
determined by the io-apic? Is it spread out to other cpus now?

Cheers,
Don


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