Re: Recoverable MCA interrupts from NMI handlers? IPMI and RCU?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Corey Minyard wrote:
> If you mean the IPMI driver, it does not tie into any SMI.  It 
> theoretically could since there's a bit for that in the watchdog timer, 
> but there's been no demand and I haven't looked at it.  I guess it would 
> be better than an NMI.
>
> If it did tie in, it would most likely just panic to get useful 
> information out before the watchdog reset the system.

The main reason I could see wanting to use SMI would be as a debugging 
tool, since SMI makes the entire state of the system available at a low 
level; however, trying to interact with the state of the kernel at this 
priority level seems beyond the pale in terms of complexity.

	-hpa
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