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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'
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On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 22:22 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 01:59:03PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote:
> > I don't think we can do anything about the panic path errors.
>
> Then the fix should be a lot easier:
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/nfit/mce.c b/drivers/acpi/nfit/mce.c
> index 3ba1c3472cf9..44c092ec2ac9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/nfit/mce.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit/mce.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ static int nfit_handle_mce(struct notifier_block
> *nb, unsigned long val,
>   struct acpi_nfit_desc *acpi_desc;
>   struct nfit_spa *nfit_spa;
>  
> + if (in_atomic())
> + return NOTIFY_DONE;

But isn't the atomic notifier call chain always called in atomic
context?

> +
>   /* We only care about memory errors */
>   if (!(mce->status & MCACOD))
>   return NOTIFY_DONE;
>
>
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton,
> HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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