On Thursday 22 June 2006 13:46, Keith Owens wrote: > Andi Kleen (on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:48:21 +0200) wrote: > >On Thursday 22 June 2006 11:01, Keith Owens wrote: > >> x86_64 and i386 behave inconsistently when sending an IPI on vector 2 > >> (NMI_VECTOR). Make both behave the same, so IPI 2 is sent as NMI. > >> > >> The crash code was abusing send_IPI_allbutself() by passing a code > >> instead of a vector, it only worked because crash knew about the > >> internal code of send_IPI_allbutself(). Change crash to use NMI_VECTOR > >> instead, and remove the comment about how crash was abusing the function. > > > >Does that fix anything? > > This patch is a pre-requisite for fixing the problem where sending an > IPI as NMI would reboot some Dell Xeon systems. I cannot fix that > problem while crash continus to abuse send_IPI_allbutself().
I merged it with the updated description. Thanks. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
