Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758318AbXFSOfL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:35:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755064AbXFSOe6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:34:58 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37555 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754576AbXFSOe5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:34:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:34:53 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: John Keller Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Add IOAPIC NMI support on x86_64 Message-ID: <20070619143453.GA4243@one.firstfloor.org> References: <200706191334.l5JDYKWR253517@fcbayern.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200706191334.l5JDYKWR253517@fcbayern.americas.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 15 > In our specific case, a loadable driver will register to process > the NMI generated by a timer device on the IOAPIC pin. The driver > will need to unmask/mask the NMI interrupt at init/exit time. > > The timer NMI interrupt will be used to synchronize cluster nodes. We normally don't add hooks which are only useful for out of tree modules unless there is a very good justification for it. -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/