Re: [patch 00/11] tip/x86/nmi nmi-32/64.c merge v3

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 25 May 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [Thomas Gleixner - Sun, May 25, 2008 at 06:44:28PM +0200]
> | On Sat, 24 May 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> | 
> | > This series tries to merge down nmi_32/64.c to nmi.c. It is done by small
> | > steps in hope it would help to bisect problems (which will appear anyway ;)
> | > Please review *carefully* since it is NMI what I've touched (and I'm not
> | > nmi specialist). So I really apreciate _ANY_ comments on this. The series
> | > is produced over today 'tip' tree branch 'x86/nmi'.
> | 
> | Cyrill,
> | 
> | very good job. I did a short review and found no obvious problems
> | yet. Will have a closer look when I apply it.
> | 
> | Thanks,
> | 	tglx
> | 
> | 
> | 
> 
> thanks Thomas, unfortunelly I think the problems will arise soon,
> I've just noticed the commit 
> 
> commit 57b2b8947a5f68e59d5f50ab749efdc79d9ba040
> Author: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon May 12 21:21:12 2008 +0200
> 
>     x86: fix remove cpu_pda table patch
> 
> in tip/testing tree
> 
> so we will need some workaround for check_nmi_watchdog() 'cause of  changing
> 
> ...
> -	prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(NR_CPUS * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	prev_nmi_count = kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);

Nothing to worry for you. Your patch applies fine on the x86/nmi
branch and the merge conflict is easy to resolve.

Thanks for noticing.

       tglx

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