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    SubjectRe: [v2 PATCH 0/3] Use NMI to stop cpus
    On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:14:24PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
    > This patch series attempts to use NMI to stop cpus instead of the
    > REBOOT_VECTOR irq. The idea is to have a more robust and reliable
    > way to stop cpus when serializing things like the panic path.

    poke? Any feedback on this now that rc-1 is out and things hopefully
    calmed down a bit. :-)

    Cheers,
    Don

    >
    > More details in the changelogs.
    >
    > Don Zickus (3):
    > x86, reboot: Use NMI instead of REBOOT_VECTOR to stop cpus
    > x86, NMI: Add NMI IPI selftest
    > x86, NMI: knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus
    >
    > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +
    > arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 12 +++
    > arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 6 +
    > arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
    > arch/x86/kernel/nmi_selftest.c | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    > arch/x86/kernel/smp.c | 72 ++++++++++++++-
    > arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 +
    > 7 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
    > create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/nmi_selftest.c
    >
    > --
    > 1.7.6.4
    >


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