Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

[George Anzinger]

Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0700, 
> George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have been doing some work on kgdb to pull a few of it "fingers" out of 
> > various places in the kernel.  This is the final location where we have 
> > a kgdb intercept not covered by a notify.
>
>
> I like the idea, but the hook should be in die_nmi(), not in the
> watchdog, using the reason that is already passed into die_nmi.
> die_nmi() is also called for a real NMI.
I had though that too, but it does not allow recovery (i.e. lets reset 
the watchdog and try again).

Hmm.. just looked at traps.c.  Seems die_nmi is NOT called from the nmi 
trap, only from the watchdog.  Also, there is a notify in the path to 
the other nmi stuff.

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George Anzinger   george@xxxxxxxxxx
HRT (High-res-timers):  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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