Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:34:53 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] - Add IOAPIC NMI support on x86_64 |
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> In our specific case, a loadable driver will register to process > the NMI generated by a timer device on the IOAPIC pin. The driver > will need to unmask/mask the NMI interrupt at init/exit time. > > The timer NMI interrupt will be used to synchronize cluster nodes.
We normally don't add hooks which are only useful for out of tree modules unless there is a very good justification for it.
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