On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:57:04 -0700
Anton Vorontsov <anton.voront...@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:16:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > serial port, the CPU receives NMI exception, and we fall into KDB
> > > shell.  So, it is our "debug console", and it is able to interrupt
> > > (and thus debug) even IRQ handlers themselves.
> > 
> > You seem to have an assumption of single core here. What happens if
> > the NMI hits CPU #0 and the serial IRQ hits CPU #1 simultaneously ?
> 
> If you can't redirect all serial IRQs to NMI context, e.g. sometimes you get
> NMIs, sometimes IRQs, then your NMI handling is not deterministic, and surely
> this is not supported.

This seems like arch specific magic leaking into the tty code. Surely
this should be buried in the depths of the platform IRQ code ?

Alan

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