From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753388AbYACKj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:39:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751141AbYACKjW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:39:22 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:33400 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750939AbYACKjV (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:39:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:39:12 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [9/20] x86: Don't use oops_begin in 64bit mce code Message-ID: <20080103103912.GA29194@elte.hu> References: <20080103149.088038000@suse.de> <20080103005004.A171C14D40@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080103005004.A171C14D40@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.1 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.1 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% [score: 0.0429] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen wrote: > It is not really useful to lock machine checks against oopses. And > machine checks normally don't nest, so they don't need their own > locking. Just call bust_spinlock/console_verbose directly. is this in response to any particular incident you've seen? Ingo