Re: [PATCH] x86, UV: Fix NMI handler for UV platforms

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Mar 21 2011 - 13:05:33 EST


On 03/21/2011 07:43 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
...
>
> I think Jack might need to setup priority for his notifier, like
>
> static struct notifier_block uv_dump_stack_nmi_nb = {
> .notifier_call = uv_handle_nmi,
> .priority = NMI_LOCAL_HIGH_PRIOR+1,
> };
>
> so it would be called before perf nmi. Don, am I right?
>
> Since for perf nmis we do have
>
> static __read_mostly struct notifier_block perf_event_nmi_notifier = {
> .notifier_call = perf_event_nmi_handler,
> .next = NULL,
> .priority = NMI_LOCAL_LOW_PRIOR,
> };
>

I must admit I've missed the fact that Jack has tried NMIs priorities, right?
x86_platform_ops seems to be a cleaner indeed (btw I think p4 pmu kgdb issue
is exactly the same problem) but same time this might end up in over-swelled
ideas behind this small code snippet. Dunno. Probably we need some per-cpu
system status for nmi reasons other than unknown nmis...

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Cyrill
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