Re: [PATCH] [9/20] x86: Don't use oops_begin in 64bit mce code

Ingo Molnar
2008-01-03T10:39:29Z

* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> It is not really useful to lock machine checks against oopses. And
> machine checks normally don't nest, so they don't need their own
> locking. Just call bust_spinlock/console_verbose directly.

is this in response to any particular incident you've seen?

Ingo