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Date:   Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:44:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Remove redundant irq work
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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