Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE: Add command line option to extend MCE Records pool

Borislav Petkov
2024-02-12T22:19:32Z

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:08:33PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> I'll have to dig into my archives tomorrow, on a clear head...

So I checked out 648ed94038c030245a06e4be59744fd5cdc18c40 which is
4.2-something.

And even back then, mcheck_cpu_init() gets called *after* mm_init()
which already initializes the allocators. So why did we allocate that
buffer statically?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.