linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs

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Message-ID: <4F59CDE5.8010400@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:31:17 +0900
From:	Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao 
	<fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, vgoyal@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs

On 03/09/2012 01:35 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I am fine with your approach.  I suggest a big fat comment mentioning
> the 10 byte requirement and the register requirement.
>
> Neither one is locally obvious which makes it easy to goof when
> modifying the code.
Done.



>>> Doing something less brittle than:
>>>> extern const char early_idt_handlers[NUM_EXCEPTION_VECTORS][10];
>>> in segment.h might be a good idea as well.
Tackled that one too.

I will be replying to this email with the updated patches.

Thanks,
Fernando

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