On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:35:21AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> Your solution seems much simpler. :-)
... and I love simpler :-)
> I followed up in another email stating I mis-spoke. I forgot this still
> uses the NMI_LOCAL shared NMI. So every perf NMI, will also call the GHES
> handler to make sure NMIs did not piggy back each other. So I don't believe
And this is something we should really fix - perf and RAS should
not have anything to do with each other. But I don't know the NMI
code to even have an idea how. I don't even know whether we can
differentiate NMIs, hell, I can't imagine the hardware giving us a
different NMI reason through get_nmi_reason(). Maybe that byte returned
from NMI_REASON_PORT is too small and hangs on too much legacy crap to
even be usable. Questions over questions...
> the NMI reason lock is called a majority of the time (except when the NMI is
> swallowed, but that is under heavy perf load...).
..
> We both agree the mechanics of the spinlock are overkill here and cause much
> cache contention. Simplifying it to just 'reads' and return removes most of
> the problem.
Right.
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Boris.
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