linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: die_notifier and default_do

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Date:	Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:55:12 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	ying.huang@...el.com, gorcunov@...il.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: die_notifier and default_do_nmi cleanups

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:18 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> This is another version of the NMI rewrite patches I sent previously.  I
> take it those patches were too thick to be reviewed easily, so I broke out
> the patches differently to make it easier to review.  Hopefully it doesn't
> look as scary.
> 
> The bulk of the patch adds priorities to the die_chain notifiers for NMI
> events and removes the DIE_NMI_IPI event.  There are some other cleanups
> too, which include removing the restriction of the BSP cpu to process 
> external NMIs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Don
> 
> Don Zickus (5):
>   x86: Convert some devices to use DIE_NMIUNKNOWN
>   x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers
>   x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI
>   x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU
>   x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi()
> 
> Huang Ying (1):
>   x86, NMI: Add NMI symbol constants and rename memory parity to PCI
>     SERR
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h           |    1 -
>  arch/x86/include/asm/mach_traps.h       |   12 +++-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/nmi.h              |   20 ++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c           |    3 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c      |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c |    5 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c        |    3 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c                  |    6 +--
>  arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c                |    5 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                 |  102 +++++++++++++++---------------
>  arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c             |    3 +-
>  arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c       |    2 +-
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c       |    2 +-
>  drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c                |    2 +-
>  14 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
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