rounding up CPUs on debug exception
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Sep 27 07:34:26 EST 2005
> >From what I understand, the smp_call_function() will block
> while the other cpu has interrupts disabled. Ideally we
> want to halt that cpu before it does anything else. Also, if
> the other cpu is waiting on a spin lock the current cpu
> holds, there will be a deadlock.
>
> BTW, the current implementation uses smp_call_function() and
> the system hangs occasionally on the call to smp_call_function().
There is no NMI generically available. On some machines, you can trigger
a system reset (0x100) exception but that isn't always recoverable.
Ben.
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