linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 6/7] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error with unknown NMI

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Message-ID: <1285634172.20791.92.camel@yhuang-dev>
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:36:12 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 6/7] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error
 with unknown NMI

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 23:20 +0800, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:38:16PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 27.09.10 08:47:53, huang ying wrote:
> > 
> > > I think explicit function calls have better readability than notifier chains.
> > 
> > What is different to unknown_nmi() then?
> > 
> > So no, in your case you want to catch unknown nmis for a certain
> > hardware and then throw a panic. This should be clearly implemented in
> > a separate handler for this piece of hardware.
> > 
> > We want to cleanup this code and throw out all hardware specific
> > snippets, and not introduce new special cases here.
> 
> I tend to agree with Robert here.  I don't know if there were any 'rules'
> to which handlers get directly called versus ones that go through the
> die_chain, so I was originally going to let it go.  But if they aren't
> any, it does look cleaner to have everything in die_chains.

Personally, I think directly call has better readability than
notifier_chain in general. Notifier_chain is for:

- Call functions in module.
- Need to enable/disable (via register/unregister) at run time.
- Call functions from low layer to high layer.

Otherwise, notifier_chain should be avoid if possible. So I think it is
better to keep direct call as much as possible.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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