linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling

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Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:57:18 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	minyard@....org
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:12:57 -0600 Corey Minyard <minyard@....org> wrote:

> 
> Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog
> timeouts via an NMI.  This add config options to know if there
> is the ability to receive NMIs and if it has an NMI post processing
> call.  Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog to take advantage of
> this so that it can know if an NMI comes in.
> 
> It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
>  	bool
>  	default y
>  
> +config HAVE_STANDARD_NOTIFY_DIE
> +	bool
> +	default y
> +

This is all fairly unpleasant.

What architecture is preventing us from using DIE_NMI_POST on all
architectures which support ipmi?  ia64?

It would be better to simply require that all ipmi-using architectures
implement notify_die(DIE_NMI_POST, ...).

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