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Date:	Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:53:06 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
CC:	x86@...nel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>, ying.huang@...el.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: die_notifier and default_do_nmi cleanups

On 01/07/2011 12:18 AM, 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
> 

FWIW, the series looks good to me. Thanks Don.

-- 
    Cyrill
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