From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756813AbbLDXP4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:15:56 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57822 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755226AbbLDXPy (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:15:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 00:15:46 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "Raj, Ashok" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Patch V1] x86, mce: Ensure offline CPU's don't participate in mce rendezvous process. Message-ID: <20151204231546.GD21529@pd.tnic> References: <20151204235725.GA13057@otc-brkl-03.jf.intel.com> <20151204230654.GC21529@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39F797F9@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39F797F9@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:11:12PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > With that hunk here you want to clear MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS in the > > !cfg->banks case, right? > > I can't imagine how we'd get into do_machine_check without any banks. > > Would indeed be a separate patch ... but value seems limited. Then we should kill that hunk. I'm all for not covering improbable cases. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --