Re: [RFC 5/6] x86, NMI, Add support to notify hardware error withunknown NMI

[Ingo Molnar]

* Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > > At least on PCI-E it may be enough to simply dump all recent AER 
> > > > data.
> > > 
> > > This assumes AER is supported on the bridge?  Which for newer 
> > > chips is probably true, but I wasn't sure about older ones.
> > 
> > Today's servers should usually have AER at least.
> > 
> > For old systems you only can get the few bits in PCI space.
> > 
> > > How would I dump AER data from within the kernel?
> > 
> > Would need a buffer that is dumped for past events and reading the 
> > registers for not yet reported. Right now some infrastructure is 
> > needed.
> 
> Oh ok.

The proper approach would be not to add hacks to the NMI code but to 
implement southbridge drivers - which would also have NMI callbacks. 
These are unchartered waters, but variance in that space is reducing 
systematically so it would be worth a shot.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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