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From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	x86@kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: carve out AMD MCE decoding logic
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 20:26:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091002182659.GA16436@aftab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091002133954.GA29390@elte.hu>

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:39:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I suspect this is fine currently because no two EDAC modules should be 
> active at the same time. A followup cleanup patch would be nice 
> nevertheless that uses a notifier chain here with proper 
> register/unregister locking.

Please do elaborate for I can't seem to follow.

AFAICT, we are going to have max one MCE decoder at any one time so no
need to notify it.

The x86_mce_decode_callback assignment probably needs locking just to be
on the safe side. We can do a

mce_set_decode_callback(void (*f)(struct mce*m))

helper which falls back to default_decode_mce() whenever its being
passed a NULL for *f using proper locking...

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something though...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-02 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30 14:09 x86: mce: Please revert 22223c9b417be5fd0ab2cf9ad17eb7bd1e19f7b9 Andi Kleen
2009-09-30 19:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-09-30 20:46   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-30 21:48     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-30 22:39       ` Borislav Petkov
2009-09-30 23:09         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-01 14:14           ` Borislav Petkov
2009-10-01 14:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-01 14:46               ` Borislav Petkov
2009-10-01 15:00                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-01 15:21                   ` Borislav Petkov
2009-10-01 15:32                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-02 13:21                       ` Borislav Petkov
2009-10-02 13:22                         ` [PATCH 1/3] x86, mce, edac: Fix MCE decoding callback logic Borislav Petkov
2009-10-02 13:23                         ` [PATCH 2/3] initcalls: add early_initcall for modules Borislav Petkov
2009-10-02 14:01                           ` [tip:x86/urgent] initcalls: Add early_initcall() " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2009-10-02 13:26                         ` x86: mce: Please revert 22223c9b417be5fd0ab2cf9ad17eb7bd1e19f7b9 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-02 13:31                         ` [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: carve out AMD MCE decoding logic Borislav Petkov
2009-10-02 13:39                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-02 18:26                             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2009-10-02 18:47                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-03  6:57                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-10-03  7:18                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-05 15:15                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2009-10-16 12:55                                   ` [tip:perf/mce] mce, edac: Use an atomic notifier for MCEs decoding tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2009-10-02 14:01                           ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: EDAC: carve out AMD MCE decoding logic tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2009-10-01 14:55               ` x86: mce: Please revert 22223c9b417be5fd0ab2cf9ad17eb7bd1e19f7b9 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-01 15:26               ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-02 14:01             ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: EDAC: MCE: Fix MCE decoding callback logic tip-bot for Ingo Molnar

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