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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:13:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170412211302.3d2cxe34sgiu3dag@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492028744.2738.14.camel@intel.com>

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 08:27:05PM +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> But isn't the atomic notifier call chain always called in atomic
> context?

No, it isn't. We're calling it in normal process context in
mce_gen_pool_process() too.

So this early exit will avoid any sleeping in atomic context. And since
there's nothing you can do about the errors reported in atomic context,
we can actually use that fact.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com" <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:13:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170412211302.3d2cxe34sgiu3dag@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492028744.2738.14.camel@intel.com>

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 08:27:05PM +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> But isn't the atomic notifier call chain always called in atomic
> context?

No, it isn't. We're calling it in normal process context in
mce_gen_pool_process() too.

So this early exit will avoid any sleeping in atomic context. And since
there's nothing you can do about the errors reported in atomic context,
we can actually use that fact.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-12 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-11 22:44 [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic' Vishal Verma
2017-04-11 22:44 ` Vishal Verma
2017-04-12  9:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12  9:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 19:59   ` Vishal Verma
2017-04-12 19:59     ` Vishal Verma
2017-04-12 20:22     ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 20:22       ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 20:27       ` Verma, Vishal L
2017-04-12 20:27         ` Verma, Vishal L
2017-04-12 20:52         ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-12 20:52           ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-12 20:55           ` Dan Williams
2017-04-12 20:55             ` Dan Williams
2017-04-12 21:12             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-12 21:12               ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-12 21:19               ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-12 21:19                 ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-12 21:47                 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 21:47                   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 22:16                   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 22:16                     ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 22:26                     ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-12 22:26                       ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-12 22:29                       ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 22:29                         ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-13 11:31                         ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-13 11:31                           ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-13 12:12                           ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-13 12:12                             ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-18 16:28                             ` Luck, Tony
2017-04-18 16:28                               ` Luck, Tony
     [not found]                           ` <20170413113159.rc32ebiswn64nzrr-fF5Pk5pvG8Y@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-21 21:39                             ` Verma, Vishal L
2017-04-21 21:39                               ` Verma, Vishal L
2017-04-12 21:13         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-04-12 21:13           ` Borislav Petkov
2017-04-12 21:50           ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-12 21:50             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-12 22:42             ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 22:42               ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 23:45               ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 23:45                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-13 14:34                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-13 14:34                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-18 20:27 ` [tip:ras/urgent] x86/mce: Make the MCE notifier a blocking one tip-bot for Vishal Verma
2017-04-18 20:27   ` tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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