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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] arch generic way to trigger unknown NMIs
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> We have send_IPI_self which can't be used for NMI delivery mode (ie with
> self shortland) but still can be used as say (didn't test)

 So what's stopping send_IPI_self() from being used for an NMI?  Can't the 
function be updated/fixed to support these if there's a need?

  Maciej