From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752322AbYJ0Rp6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:45:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751098AbYJ0Rpu (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:45:50 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:44646 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936AbYJ0Rpt (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:45:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:45:34 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Aristeu Rozanski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] IOAPIC NMI watchdog fixes Message-ID: <20081027174534.GA3046@elte.hu> References: <20081027164233.132189000@napanee.usersys.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00,DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE RBL: Envelope sender in blackholes.securitysage.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: > > > These two patches make use of __acpi_nmi_disable() to make possible to: > > - enable and disable IOAPIC NMI watchdog using procfs > > - disable NMI generation if the NMI watchdog is not working on boot time > > Thanks, I'll see if I can find some time soon to give them a hit -- > I've got a serial console on my laptop now, :) so any odd boot-time > tests will be easier for me. These would be best tested with Ingo's > APIC tree, a current snapshot of which I may not have handy. Ping > me if I don't respond within a few days. okay - they look reasonable so i've applied Aristeu's patches to tip/x86/apic and integrated them into tip/master, we'll see how they work out. Please Ack/Nak them once you have the time to have a close look. Ingo