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

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Message-ID: <4F5A6D87.4050809@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:52:23 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao 
	<fernando@....ntt.co.jp>, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	vgoyal@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] boot: ignore early NMIs

Okay, I need to ask this...

Is there a reason to not just simply block these NMIs during the kexec
sequence?

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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