Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processedon any CPU

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On 02/27/2011 04:01 AM, huang ying wrote:
...
> >   Probably we should put question in another fashion, ie in the fasion of
> > overall design -- who should be
> > responsible for handling external nmis, 1) the cpu which apic is configured
> > to observe such nmis or 2) any cpu?
> > If we take 1) then no lock is needed and underlied code will report real cpu
> > number who observed nmi. If
> > we take 2) then lock is needed but we need a big comment in default_do_nmi
> > together with probably cpu number
> > fixed in serr\iochk printk's.
>
> I am OK with both solutions.
>
> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying

ok, lets see what others think on this thread

--
    Cyrill
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