Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Don't unregister CPU hotplug notifier in error path

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:41:27AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Only in the sense that on Xen misc_register() often fails. But any
> failure on baremetal will result in the same behavior.

Ok, thanks for explaining the details.

> Right. And I think we shouldn't because we leave undeleted timers.

I wonder if we could simply move the oneliner:

	__register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);

to mcheck_init()? We don't need any locking there because we're pre-SMP
then and from looking at notifier_chain_register(), it seems there's
nothing special that needs initializing for the call to be too early -
we're simply adding the callback to a list...

Hmm, because if that would work, the fix is almost trivial. :)

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