Andi Kleen (on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:59:46 +0200) wrote: >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.
Merged how much and into which tree? Most of the change is i386, with a one line change to x86_64. I have to ensure that the i386 bits get into the main tree. - 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
