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
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