[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V5] x86/kexec: Change NMI and MCE handling on kexec path
At 11:47 +0000 on 13 Dec (1355399235), Andrew Cooper wrote: > >nmi_shootdown_cpus() has a go, but I think it would have to do an atomic > >compare-exchange on crashing_cpu to actually be sure that only one CPU > >is crashing at a time. If two CPUs try to lead crashes at the same > >time, it will deadlock here, with NMIs disabled on all CPUs. > > kexec_common_shutdown() calls one_cpu_only() which gives the impression > that nmi_shootdown_cpus() can only be gotten to once. Right, I missed that. So, Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> You can tidy up entry.S or not, as you like. There's no correctness issue with anything there, just things that could be neater if you were already updating the patch. Cheers, Tim. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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