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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/6] arm64: provide pseudo NMI with GICv3
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On 29/04/18 07:37, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:10 AM, Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 17/01/18 11:54, Julien Thierry wrote:
>>>
>>> This series is a continuation of the work started by Daniel [1]. The goal
>>> is to use GICv3 interrupt priorities to simulate an NMI.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I have submitted a separate series making use of this feature for the ARM
>> PMUv3 interrupt [1].
>
> I guess the hard lockup detector using NMI could be a nice next step
> to see how well it works with lock up detection. That's the main
> usecase for my interest. However, perf profiling is also a strong one.
>

From my understanding, Linux's hardlockup detector already uses the ARM
PMU interrupt to check whether some task is stuck. I haven't looked at
the details of the implementation yet, but in theory having the PMU
interrupt as NMI should make the hard lockup detector use the NMI.

When I do the v3, I'll have a look at this to check whether the
hardlockup detector works fine when using NMI.

Cheers,

--
Julien Thierry

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