Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] trace,x86: add x86 irq vector tracepoints

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/18/2013 03:45 PM, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> > > Not-yet-signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ... so I was holding off on doing anything with it.
> >
> > Heh, and I was waiting for comments from you before doing anything further with it ;-)
> >
> > Email review deadlock!
>
> So, how do you plan to push ahead with this patch?
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/1/532
>
> <snip>
> I think I got all the cases, as NMIs causes the store/restore functions to be re-entrent without any locks.
> <snip>
>
> Steven,
> if you think you got all the cases, you can do more testing.
> What is your concern?
>
> I hope this patch will be included in 3.9.

What about the following:

> The base address of the IDT doesn't generally change... the one
> exception is when we do the funny NMI workaround.
>
> For that reason, I would be happier if we just restored the standard
> value instead of saving/restoring stuff.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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