Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:38:10 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [Patch V0] x86, mce: Ensure offline CPU's don't participate in mce rendezvous process. |
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On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:30:39PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > Ashok wants to move in stage 2 to having the offline cpu scan banks and report > any errors seen there. To do that we'll have to run through a fair bit of the > do_machine_check() code.
I'm still very sceptical whether logging those errors are worth the risk of running code on an offlined CPU.
> But ... if you want a super safe version to put the stable tag on ... we could > just have something like this at the head of do_machine_check()
It would be prudent IMO. We don't want to disrupt stable kernels unnecessarily.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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