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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/mce: Simplify flow when handling recoverable memory errors
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:22:45AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I think it's okay-ish, but only if it's necessary, and I still don't
> see why it's necessary.
>
> Can't you just remove TIF_MCE_NOTIFY entirely and just do all the
> mce_notify_process work directly in do_machine_check? IOW, why do you
> need to store any state per-task when it's already on the stack
> anyway.

I wish but memory_failure() can't run in #MC context as it noodles
quite a lot and grabs all kinds of locks and does a bunch of other
atomit-context-unsafe things.

And it needs to run *before* the process is killed as it looks at its
pages.

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