Re: x86: mce: Please revert 22223c9b417be5fd0ab2cf9ad17eb7bd1e19f7b9

Borislav Petkov
2009-10-01T14:46:38Z

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:34:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Ok, here it is, tested on two Fam10 machines here with injecting MCEs.
> > The decoding code is now built-in by default (early_initcall requires
> > !MODULE).
>
> I don't think it has to require !MODULE. We could do what we do for the
> other initcalls, ie if MODULE we turn it into just a regular initcall. If
> that allows something like the EDAC MCE to be built as a module, and
> people want to, then just go ahead and add the one-liner to <linux/init.h>
>
> Of course, if it _requires_ being loaded early for some other reason, then

the only reason I can think of is if you want to be able to decode MCEs
happening as early as possible before the modules have been init-ted.

Question really is, what is more important to us? But we definitely
can do the module stuff too and get rid of ~5K core kernel fat by
relocating the whole functionality completely into the module. Hmm...

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Boris.

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