[PATCH v2 0/6] arm64: provide pseudo NMI with GICv3

Joel Fernandes joel.opensrc at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 23:37:55 PDT 2018


On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:10 AM, Julien Thierry <julien.thierry at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17/01/18 11:54, Julien Thierry wrote:
>>
>> This series is a continuation of the work started by Daniel [1]. The goal
>> is to use GICv3 interrupt priorities to simulate an NMI.
>>
>
>
> I have submitted a separate series making use of this feature for the ARM
> PMUv3 interrupt [1].

I guess the hard lockup detector using NMI could be a nice next step
to see how well it works with lock up detection. That's the main
usecase for my interest. However, perf profiling is also a strong one.

thanks,

- Joel



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