Re: [PATCH] x86: fix duplicate calls of the nmi handler

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:13:58AM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 17.09.10 03:52:16, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 08:13 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > 
> > > Please take a look at my recent patch that rewrites the NMI handler.
> > 
> > (Link would have been useful)
> > 
> > > Where NMI are divided into two types. CPU specific NMI are processed
> > > firstly as DIE_NMI_IPI, and non-CPU specific NMI are processed as
> > > DIE_NMI.
> > 
> > OK, and you can discriminate between these two by means of that reason
> > port? Still I think NMI_IPI is a terrible name for that.
> 
> I think the current implementation that devides into NMI and NMI_IPI
> is just to keep a certain order when calling the handlers - handling
> local NMIs before non-CPU NMIs.
> 
...

This DIE_NMI_IPI definitely strange. Perhaps we could rename it to something
more understandable and implement separate notifier chain for it so that
code would not need to check if (... != DIE_NMI_IPI). Hm?

	-- Cyrill
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