On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 3:32 PM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thomp...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 05:44:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> There is some prior art for this sort of feature. AFAICT SGI UV has a
> similar mechanism that can send an NMI-with-no-side-channel to the
> kernel. The corresponding driver offers a range of actions using a
> module parameter:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c#n180
>
> I don't think a hardcoded 'c' makes any sense. With a hardcoded argument
> it is just obfuscation. However it is certainly seems attractive to be
> able to reuse handle_sysrq() to provide a more powerful set of actions.

How about a module parameter that allows picking a sysrq character then?

        Arnd


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