Re: Handling NMI in a kernel module

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
23 Jul 2002 23:30:30 +0100


On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:37, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> I'ld like my driver to register a callback there, what about maintaining a
> list of user callback functions which could be registered via:
>
> request_nmi(int option, void (*hander)(void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs),
> unsigned long flags, const char *dev_name, void *dev_id)

Doesnt seen unreasonable
;
> Is there any standard mecanism to implement such features( dual stage
> watchdog ) ?

We have a watchdog API but not yet dual stage stuff. Its becoming a must
have for HA stuff so the API needs extending

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