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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>,
	Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 10:27:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170306182754.GB29163@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306111654.xmmizzae4assppk3@pd.tnic>

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:16:54PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 09:36:52PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> > We met an issue for kdump: after kdump kernel boots up,
> > and there comes a broadcasted mce in first kernel, the
> > other cpus remaining in first kernel will enter the old
> > mce handler of first kernel, then timeout and panic due
> > to MCE synchronization, finally reset the kdump cpus.
> > 
> > This patch lets cpus stay quiet after nmi_shootdown_cpus(),
> > so after kdump boots, cpus remaining in 1st kernel should
> > not do anything except clearing MCG_STATUS. This is useful
> > for kdump to let vmcore dumping perform as hard as it can.
> 
> Ok, I went and rewrote the text to make it more succinct, to the point
> and correct spelling and formatting.
> 
> Tony, ACK?

Yes. Looks good now.

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

-Tony

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-06 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-23 13:36 [PATCH v4] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Xunlei Pang
2017-03-03  9:07 ` Xunlei Pang
2017-03-06 11:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-06 18:27   ` Luck, Tony [this message]

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