On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:55, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Playing with NMI watchdog on x86_64, I discovered that it didn't
> do what I expected. It always panic-ed, even when it didn't
> happen from interrupt context.
Hmm, I don't think that's true. Or at least it worked at some point.
Ok maybe something regressed.
> This patch solves that
> problem for me. Also, in this case, do_exit() will be called
> with interrupts disabled, I believe. Would it be wise to also
> call local_irq_enable() after nmi_exit()?
Probably yes. I added that with the the patch.
Thanks,
-Andi
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