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Intel Improving NMI Source Reporting On Linux With FRED


As part of Intel's Flexible Return Event Delivery (FRED), Intel open-source software engineers are now working on improving Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) source reporting for the Linux kernel.

Try it today to view our site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and more while the proceeds allow us to write more Linux hardware reviews. As part of the FRED specification, Intel engineers are now tackling NMI source reporting to address inefficiencies and increased latency for performance monitoring and handling with CPU backtraces, the kernel debugger, and more. Inter-Processor Interrupts (IPIs) for functions like CPU backtrace, machine check, Kernel GNU Debugger (KGDB), reboot, panic stop, and self-test.

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