Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:42:00 +0200
From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
CC: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
        Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: try to handle unknown nmis with running
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On 09.08.10 16:02:45, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> > @@ -1222,14 +1245,12 @@ perf_event_nmi_handler(struct notifier_block *self,
> >  	regs = args->regs;
> >  
> >  	apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_NMI);
> 
> If only I'm not missing something this apic_write should go up to
> "case DIE_NMIUNKNOWN" site, no?

This seems to be code from the non-nmi implementation and can be
removed at all, which should be a separate patch. The vector is
already set up.

-Robert

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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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