x86: Convert some devices to use DIE_NMIUNKNOWN
authorDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:18:48 +0000 (16:18 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:08:52 +0000 (15:08 +0100)
commit673a6092ce5f5bec45619b7a7f89cfcf8bcf3c41
treedb1ea99585f3744097e10b15f581ceb55e812eab
parent1c7b74d46fed530cca22a9a54140cdac2815c797
x86: Convert some devices to use DIE_NMIUNKNOWN

They are a handful of places in the code that register a die_notifier
as a catch all in case no claims the NMI.  Unfortunately, they trigger
on events like DIE_NMI and DIE_NMI_IPI, which depending on when they
registered may collide with other handlers that have the ability to
determine if the NMI is theirs or not.

The function unknown_nmi_error() makes one last effort to walk the
die_chain when no one else has claimed the NMI before spitting out
messages that the NMI is unknown.

This is a better spot for these devices to execute any code without
colliding with the other handlers.

The two drivers modified are only compiled on x86 arches I believe, so
they shouldn't be affected by other arches that may not have
DIE_NMIUNKNOWN defined.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294348732-15030-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c