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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andy Lutomirski (luto@amacapital.net)" <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch V0] x86, mce: Ensure offline CPU's don't participate in mce rendezvous process.
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:38:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204193810.GP21177@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39F79055@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:30:39PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Ashok wants to move in stage 2 to having the offline cpu scan banks and report
> any errors seen there.  To do that we'll have to run through a fair bit of the
> do_machine_check() code.

I'm still very sceptical whether logging those errors are worth the risk
of running code on an offlined CPU.

> But ... if you want a super safe version to put the stable tag on ... we could
> just have something like this at the head of do_machine_check()

It would be prudent IMO. We don't want to disrupt stable kernels
unnecessarily.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04  0:16 [Patch V0] x86, mce: Ensure offline CPU's don't participate in mce rendezvous process Ashok Raj
2015-12-03 23:34 ` Greg KH
2015-12-04 14:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-04 17:14   ` Raj, Ashok
2015-12-04 16:51     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-04 17:23       ` Luck, Tony
2015-12-04 17:36         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-04 17:53           ` Luck, Tony
2015-12-04 18:00             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-04 18:30               ` Luck, Tony
2015-12-04 19:38                 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-12-04 22:34             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-05  0:08               ` Raj, Ashok
2015-12-04 23:14                 ` Andy Lutomirski

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