From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757105AbcGZWbN (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:31:13 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0201.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.201]:45636 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbcGZWbL (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:31:11 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 726F737465647440676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,rostedt@goodmis.org,:::::::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3351:3622:3865:3867:3868:3870:3871:3874:4250:4321:5007:6261:6742:7875:10004:10400:10848:10967:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13161:13229:13311:13357:13439:14181:14659:14721:21080:30012:30054:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: stage63_2715a2adf433d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2300 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:31:07 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" , X86 ML , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , Brian Gerst , Kees Cook , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Byungchul Park Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/19] x86/dumpstack: add get_stack_info() interface Message-ID: <20160726183107.2e7172c6@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20160726222454.xqfr2l2qkc6xkavw@treble> References: <88568c51f1a253210897e368262d0f5fa1d7e97a.1469136008.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com> <20160722235459.xtikpj263hroloqo@treble> <20160723140439.36bhw5aslcxlkf3f@treble> <20160726162642.e3ro4ynrgex74232@treble> <20160726222454.xqfr2l2qkc6xkavw@treble> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:24:54 -0500 Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > This should be impossible unless that last entry is MCE. If we > > actually fire an event that isn't MCE early in NMI entry, something > > already went very wrong. > > So we don't need to support breakpoints in the early NMI entry code? Yes, if that happens, then bad things can really happen. The only way a breakpoint could be added there, is perhaps with KGDB, and that's just asking for trouble anyway. -- Steve