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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
	Owen Kibel <qmewlo@gmail.com>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"atodorov@redhat.com" <atodorov@redhat.com>,
	"gong.chen@linux.intel.com" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:42:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417194241.GF4321@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyz62W7CD9=9p9OxKuFs9Rck_p93E_40CqLat1HvDdf0Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:25:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, Owen tested a simpler patch that just changes the "get_cpu_var()"
> to "__get_cpu_var()" and avoids the preempt increment.

Which basically would be the same as doing this_cpu_write() in the
proposed fix - both don't touch preemption. So it is something else.
More staring...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17  9:57 [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2014-04-17 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 10:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 14:03     ` Luck, Tony
2014-04-17 15:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 16:54         ` Josh Boyer
2014-04-17 19:23           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 19:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-17 19:42               ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-04-17 20:58                 ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found]                   ` <CAK7FoDt6tnknX7cioe7=2svVksyAyLUtoZX_oprzJNxoHZEpdw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17 21:30                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 22:20                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-18  8:07                         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18  9:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-25  8:47                           ` Chen, Gong
2014-04-25 13:15                             ` Ingo Molnar

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