Re: Suspend 2 merge: 17/51: Disable MCE checking during suspend.

Pavel Machek
2004-11-26T23:11:20Z

Hi!

> > > > > Avoid a potential SMP deadlock here.
> > > >
> > > > ..and loose MCE report.
> > >
> > > Deadlock or get an MCE report and do a printk when we're shutting down
> > > anyway?
> >
> > If MCE happens, I'd like user to report it. Loosing it is wrong,
> > deadlocking may be actually better because at least you get the
> > report. I'd BUG().
> >
> > MCEs are hardware problem, right? They should not be common.
>
> It's not them occurring that's the problem, it's checking for them that
> involves an SMP call :<

Oops, that bad... and checking is done periodically? That's bad. Okay,
your solution is right here.
Pavel
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