Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [9/20] x86: Don't use oops_begin in 64bit mce code | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:52:42 +0100 |
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On Thursday 03 January 2008 11:39:12 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > It is not really useful to lock machine checks against oopses. And > > machine checks normally don't nest, so they don't need their own > > locking. Just call bust_spinlock/console_verbose directly. > > is this in response to any particular incident you've seen?
No, that was a preparatory patch for the "use 64bit machine check code for 32bit kernels" because 32bit doesn't have oops_begin(), but it is useful on its own.
-Andi
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