Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Linus Torvalds
2020-10-11T18:01:14Z

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:09 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
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> - Fix a (hopefully final) IRQ state tracking bug vs. MCE handling

Why is the nmi_enter/nmi_exit thing not a problem on non-x86 architectures?

Put another way: x86 does extra work to track IRQ state across NMI.
What makes x86 special? It _feels_ to me like everybody should do
that? No?

Please tell me what I've missed..

Linus