On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Keith Owens wrote:
> The new ia64 MCA/INIT handlers[1] (think of them as super NMI) run on
> separate stacks. 99% of the changes for these new handlers is ia64
> only code, however they need a couple of scheduler hooks to support
> these extra stacks. The complete patch set will be coming through the
> ia64 tree, this RFC covers just the scheduler changes, so they do not
> come as a surprise when the ia64 tree is rolled up.
>
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=112537827113545&w=2
> and the following patches.
Thanks that gave a lot of background.
> This patch adds two small hooks that can be safely called from MCA/INIT
> context. If other architectures want to support NMI on separate stacks
> then they can also use these functions.
Well x86_64 already does this with NMI being setup as ISTs, the difference
is that there we use a register to access current (via PDA/%gs). I might
have missed this in the URL you posted, but how come IA64 can't do this
via r13?
Thanks,
Zwane
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