From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] 2 RAS fixes for 3.17, refreshed
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:12:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AD89FB.7090609@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140627150155.GG23153@pd.tnic>
On 06/27/2014 11:01 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:27:01AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> Isn't that one a regression that was introduced in 3.16?
> Hrrm, BorisO, you said misc_register would often fail in xen, is that
> correct? Because if so, we added the error check to misc_register in
> 3.16 so the mcheck_init_device fix would have to go in now.
Yes, it fails because xen_late_init_mcelog() registers /dev/mcelog and
(I think) it happens before mcheck_init_device().
In other words, misc_register() expected to fail in mcheck/mce.c on
(privileged?) PV guests (provided right CONFIG_XEN_* is set).
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-27 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-22 16:46 [GIT PULL] RAS fix for 3.17 Borislav Petkov
2014-06-24 13:24 ` [GIT PULL] 2 RAS fixes for 3.17, refreshed Borislav Petkov
2014-06-24 13:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-27 15:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-27 15:12 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2014-06-27 16:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-27 16:59 ` Boris Ostrovsky
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