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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:57:10 -0600
From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Notifier for significant events on i386
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Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:

>Andi,
>
>Isn't this a problem on x86_64 too? What is there to prevent a
>handler from being removed from the notifier list while it
>is being used to call the handler on another CPU?
>
>I am considering using a RCU-based list for notifier chains.
>Corey has done some work on these lines to add NMI notifier
>chain, I think it should be generalised on for all notifiers.
>
>Thoughts? Comments?
>  
>
This is probably a good idea.  I won't be able to work on it for a 
while, but you can grab
my patch at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/, look under the 
2.5 releases for
the most current linux-nmi-2.5.xx-vyy.diff.

-Corey


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