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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:22:09 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: NOMURA JUNICHI(野村 淳一) <junichi.nomura@....com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Add a message about ignored early NMIs
On January 25, 2024 6:15:15 PM PST, "NOMURA JUNICHI(野村 淳一)" <junichi.nomura@....com> wrote:
>> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
>> On 1/24/24 03:44, NOMURA JUNICHI(野村 淳一) wrote:
>> >> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
>> >> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 08:57:45AM +0000, NOMURA JUNICHI(野村 淳一) wrote:
>> >>> + if (spurious_nmi_count) {
>> >>> + error_putstr("Spurious early NMI ignored. Number of NMIs: 0x");
>> >>> + error_puthex(spurious_nmi_count);
>> >>> + error_putstr("\n");
>> >>
>> >> Uff, that's just silly:
>> >>
>> >> Spurious early NMIs ignored: 0x0000000000000017
>> >>
>> >> Would you like to add a error_putnum() or so in a prepatch which would
>> >> make this output
>> >>
>> >> Spurious early NMIs ignored: 23.
>> >>
>> >> ?
>> >>
>> >> So that it is human readable and doesn't make me wonder what that hex
>> >> value is supposed to mean?
>> >
>> > Yes, it would be nicer to print that way. I used the existing error_puthex() just
>> > to keep the patch minimal. I will try to add error_putnum().
>> >
>> >> Btw, please use this version when sending next time:
>>
>> Here is a *completely* untested patch for you...
>
>Ah, I was preparing decimal only version but yours is much better.
>I tested and it just works.
>
>I would like to use yours as a prepatch. May I have your signed-off-by?
>
>--
>Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation / NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@...or.com>
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