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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:20:33 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: NMI handling rework for x86
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Corey Minyard wrote:

| Linus,
|
| John Levon suggested I send this to you.  It's a cleanup of the NMI
| handling to make it into a request/release mechanism (instead of
| hard-coding everything into traps.c).  It renames "nmi.c" to
| "nmi_watchdog.c" (as it should be named) and moves the real NMI handling
| code from traps.c to nmi.c.  It's been posted and reworked on lkml, and
| it seems to have finally met approval.  The "cc-ed" people have reviewed
| the patch (or at least made helpful suggestions :-).
|
| Since a lot of things are hacking into this code (lkcd, kdb, oprofile,
| nmi watchdog, and now my IPMI watchdog pretimeout), it would be very
| nice to get their junk out of this code and allow them to bind in
| nicely, and allow binding from modules.

Switching topics:
Where is the watchdog pretimeout interface ("API") defined?
Has there been any discussion of it?

| (And this time it's a -p1 diff)

Looks like a -p0 diff to me.

-- 
~Randy

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