Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Clear a useless global variable in mce.c

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:06:38PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> I doubt there is any hope for recovery if not all processors show up
> ... things have to be already very broken for the machine check to be
> blocked.

Good, so this whole babble about the potential of a timeout and whatever
is all beside the point.

What we want to do is if any of the cores are stuck - monarch or not -
we want to panic the hell out of this box and not do anything further.
So only the tolerant check would need adjusting.

> I'm OK with it going - but as I said before I'd like to see mce_callin
> printed (so I can tell if just one cpu showed up, just the cpus from
> one socket, or some other significant number).

I don't think you want to do this unconditionally, do you? Rather maybe
mce_timed_out dumps the order variable before the box panics :-)

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    Boris.

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