Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:40:49 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation |
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:33:33 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> For example, if checking for an error involves actually reading a value > from a bridge register, then that implies some _serious_ amount of > serialization and external CPU stuff.
Which is _extremly_ hard to do from an MCE handler ...
(currently all our MCE handlers are buggy because they can deadlock on the printk lock)
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