> I agree that normally all the parts of subsystem are supposed to co-operate
> and if there are bugs they need to be fixed. Proabably above apporach works
> most of the time. Its all about that small possibility when die chain
> is corrupted 

Then the callback or the kernel page tables or the kernel code or the kernel 
stack
could be as well  corrupted. If you start with this kind of paranoia then 
you'll 
never get anywhere.

> I am not advocating multiple callbacks. Probably once we have decided that
> system has crashed and we need to reboot into capture kernel, then
> we can replace the NMI interrupt handler altogether (at IDT level).

No. The die chain is perfectly fine for this.

-Andi
 
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