Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] x86/mce: Clear a useless global variable in mce.c | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2014 22:06:38 +0000 |
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> I mean, does the machine even recover after some of the cores have gone > into the weeds in #MC? Provided, of course, we don't have a no-way-out > MCE and we can resume execution.
I doubt there is any hope for recovery if not all processors show up ... things have to be already very broken for the machine check to be blocked.
> Or is the box so hammered that there's no turning back?
I think so.
> Concerning mce_entry, I don't care all that much - if it is really > useful, you might slap a comment saying so and keep it, for all I care.
I'm OK with it going - but as I said before I'd like to see mce_callin printed (so I can tell if just one cpu showed up, just the cpus from one socket, or some other significant number).
-Tony
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