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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mce: Remove redundant irq work
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Santosh Sivaraj wrote:

> IRQ work currently only does a schedule work to process the mce
> events. Since irq work does no other function, remove it.

No. You _cannot call schedule_work() from MCE exception context as MCE can
interrupt even interrupt disabled context similar to NMI. irq work is
designed to work in those contexts.

Thanks,

tglx

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