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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] arch generic way to trigger unknown NMIs
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Don Zickus wrote:

> No I prefer a single one too, but there didn't seem to be a
> send_IPI_self() command, so I took the short route and sent it to
> everyone. :-(

 Odd, APIC hardware does explicitly support such a mode (there are three 
shorthands like this actually: all-but-self, all and self), so why don't 
just add a suitable wrapper?

  Maciej