Re: [PATCH 2/4] nmi: add generic nmi tracking state

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 01:53 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This code adds an in_nmi() macro that uses the current tasks preempt count
> > > > to track when it is in NMI context. Other parts of the kernel can
> > > > use this to determine if the context is in NMI context or not.
> > > > 
> > > > This code was inspired by the -rt patch in_nmi version that was
> > > > written by Peter Zijlstra.
> > > 
> > > Which in turn I borrowed from Mathieu.
> > 
> > Steve, could you please fix the attribution?
> 
> Is it OK to rebase the branch to do so?

Sure, that's necessary.

And note that unless you base your tree against tip:tracing/ftrace i cannot 
do a straight pull anyway. (your trees are usually based against tip:master 
- which brings in all other branches)

	Ingo
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