Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2016 13:31:29 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/25] x86/mcheck: Be prepared for a rollback back to the ONLINE state |
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 11:40:55AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2016-11-07 11:32:19 [+0100], Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 03:50:16PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > If we try a CPU down and fail in the middle then we roll back to the > > > online state. This means we would perform CPU_ONLINE() > > > without invoking CPU_DEAD() for the cleanup of what was allocated in > > > > Are CPU_ONLINE() and CPU_DEAD() functions? Those are the states, right? > > those are states. I meant here the driver specific function invoked in > those states.
Yeah, so say that please - slapping "()" after the state name doesn't make it clear.
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