Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261292AbVCUPJy (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:09:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261324AbVCUPJy (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:09:54 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:40372 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261292AbVCUPIZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:08:25 -0500 To: Dave Peterson Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, dsp@llnl.gov, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI handler message passing / work deferral API References: <200503202056.02429.dave_peterson@pobox.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:08:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200503202056.02429.dave_peterson@pobox.com> (Dave Peterson's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:56:02 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 19 Dave Peterson writes: > Below is an experimental 2.6.11.5 kernel patch that implements the > following: > > - A generic mechanism for safely passing information from NMI handlers > to code that executes outside NMI context. See the machine check queueing implementation in arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c. It does exactly that already. Several other architectures already have similar mechanisms. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/