From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:54:09 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0312162141070.8262@jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDF4060.30303@mvista.com>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, George Anzinger wrote:
> This is for the VST code where we want to stop the timer interrupts for a bit IF
> and only if we are in the idle task AND there are no timers to service, i.e. the
> interrupt would be useless. We don't want to mess with the PIT program as that
> would mess up the time when we turn it on again. So we just want to stop a few
> interrupts from time to time. We catch up after turning the PIT back on by
> using the TSC or pm_timer or some other source that keeps something close to
> reasonable time.
I see. Well, then disable_irq(0) may be the easiest way to do that for
the regular timer interrupt. For the NMI watchdog from the I/O APIC you'd
use disable_8259A_irq(0) and for one from the local APIC -- just mask the
APIC_LVTPC interrupt (there's no wrapper function, but that's easy).
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+ Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland +
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-16 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-05 4:54 Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog Jesse Allen
2003-12-05 7:40 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-05 8:33 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-05 12:14 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-05 14:19 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 17:05 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 18:11 ` Josh McKinney
2003-12-05 8:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 12:06 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 2:20 ` Bob
2003-12-09 14:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-09 16:35 ` Bob
2003-12-10 13:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-12 16:01 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-12 16:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-12 16:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-12 17:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-13 5:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-15 13:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-12 22:27 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-15 13:13 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-15 21:42 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-16 13:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 13:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-16 15:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 16:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-16 16:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-16 17:26 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-16 20:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2003-12-16 21:53 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-17 14:03 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-05 19:11 Allen Martin
2003-12-05 20:18 ` cheuche+lkml
2003-12-05 20:34 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2003-12-05 21:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 20:55 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-06 3:20 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-05 20:36 ` Jesse Allen
2003-12-05 22:55 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05 23:11 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-05 20:56 Allen Martin
2003-12-05 22:41 b
2003-12-07 19:58 Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered Ian Kumlien
2003-12-08 2:07 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-09 18:12 ` Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog Ian Kumlien
2003-12-09 22:04 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-09 23:13 ` Ian Kumlien
2003-12-10 6:14 ` Bob
2003-12-10 7:51 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-13 3:56 Ross Dickson
2003-12-15 13:16 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-17 18:14 Ross Dickson
2003-12-17 21:41 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-17 21:48 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-18 1:30 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-18 14:32 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-19 4:17 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-19 15:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-18 14:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-12-18 14:22 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-19 5:38 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-19 10:36 ` Craig Bradney
2003-12-19 4:06 ` Ross Dickson
2003-12-19 15:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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