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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine check recovery if it is safe
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:55:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514215546.GA23488@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8MBbKr-dc2MFNCvthqWzy3MvQmb8UEKy74mi36BkYHLDTOPg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:02:59AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote:
> > I was wondering about that but don't have any other flags/use cases.
> > Well, we can always change it later if needed.
> 
> So is that an Ack? I was thinking that I should send this part to
> Linus now ... since restarting from a fault when RIPV isn't set
> could result in an application doing something bad (like getting
> the wrong answer).

Yep, sure.

Thanks.

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Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10 18:33 [PATCH 0/2] Add machine check recovery for instruction fetch Tony Luck
2012-05-10 18:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine check recovery if it is safe Tony Luck
2012-05-11  7:19   ` Chen Gong
2012-05-11 16:23     ` Luck, Tony
2012-05-13  9:59   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-14 16:16     ` Luck, Tony
2012-05-14 17:17       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-14 18:02         ` Tony Luck
2012-05-14 21:55           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-05-10 18:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/mce: Add instruction recovery signatures to mce-severity table Tony Luck
2012-05-11  7:40   ` Chen Gong
2012-05-11 17:42     ` Luck, Tony
2012-05-13 10:05       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-14 16:28         ` Luck, Tony
2012-05-14 17:23           ` Borislav Petkov

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