Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750763AbVK1FFS (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:05:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751241AbVK1FFS (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:05:18 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:47834 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbVK1FFQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:05:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:05:22 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , greg@kroah.com, kaos@sgi.com, sekharan@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com, Abhay_Salunke@dell.com, achim_leubner@adaptec.com, dmp@davidmpye.dyndns.org Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH 0/7]: Fix for unsafe notifier chain Message-ID: <20051128050522.GD8651@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20051127172725.GJ20775@brahms.suse.de> <24158.1133113176@ocs3.ocs.com.au> <20051127115640.3073f8e3.akpm@osdl.org> <20051127220329.GA17786@kroah.com> <20051128024301.GA8651@us.ibm.com> <20051127205745.78b565ec.akpm@osdl.org> <20051128045922.GK20775@brahms.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051128045922.GK20775@brahms.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 20 On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:59:22AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:57:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > > > > > Any options I missed? > > > > Stop using the notifier chains from NMI context - it's too hard. Use a > > fixed-size array in the NMI code instead. > > Or just don't unregister. That is what I did for the debug notifiers. So the thought is to replicate the notifier code in all non-NMI subsystems that require it? Thanx, Paul - 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/