linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] x86: merging nmi 32/64 to nmi.c v2

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 22:47:11 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: merging nmi 32/64 to nmi.c v2

[Hiroshi Shimamoto - Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:20:17AM -0700]
| Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| > This is a second attempt to merge nmi-32/64 to nmi.c
| 
| Hi Cyrill,
| 
| cool work!
| 
| > Summary changes:
| > 
| ...
| > - last_irq_sums and alert_counter was defined as static arrays in 32bit
| >   mode, so they were changed to per_cpu variables
| 
| This was already done, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/2/525.
| But it doesn't affect the unified file.
| 
| > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
| > +static unsigned ignore_nmis;
| > +
| > +asmlinkage notrace __kprobes void
| > +do_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
| > +{
| > +	nmi_enter();
| > +	add_pda(__nmi_count,1);
| > +	if (!ignore_nmis)
| > +		default_do_nmi(regs);
| > +	nmi_exit();
| > +}
| > +
| > +void stop_nmi(void)
| > +{
| > +	acpi_nmi_disable();
| > +	ignore_nmis++;
| > +}
| > +
| > +void restart_nmi(void)
| > +{
| > +	ignore_nmis--;
| > +	acpi_nmi_enable();
| > +}
| > +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
| 
| I'm guessing we can move these functions to traps_64.c.
| I've tried to move these functions from traps_32.c to nmi_32.c,
| but it caused build error on some 32bit configs.
| 
| thanks,
| Hiroshi Shimamoto
| 

Hi Hiroshi,

thanks a lot for reply. I will check if it would be possible
to move them to traps_64.c. Thanks ;)

		- Cyrill -
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