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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Owen Kibel <qmewlo@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"atodorov@redhat.com" <atodorov@redhat.com>,
	"gong.chen@linux.intel.com" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:30:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417213012.GC27852@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7FoDt6tnknX7cioe7=2svVksyAyLUtoZX_oprzJNxoHZEpdw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:21:41PM -0700, Owen Kibel wrote:
> The patch tested was from Chen, Gong
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/15/838
> 
> It worked, apart from the warning on boot described previously - the
> possible boot message was extracted from /var/log/kern.log
> 
> The above patch on mainline: 3.15-rc1 2014-04-13 [tar.xz]
> 
> seems to have cured the problem

Ok, good. So this is straightened out.

@Ingo: just pick up Gong's fix without the raw_spin_lock* stuff.

> - the kernel appears fine after announcing something like
> 
> kernel: [    7.341085] BUG: using __this_cpu_write() in preemptible
> [00000000] code: modprobe/546
> 
> in the boot process.

This is most likely unrelated and is caused by the preemption checks
added to __this_cpu_* in 188a81409ff7. If you'd like to debug this
further, please send a full dmesg:

dmesg > dmesg.log

Privately is fine too.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17  9:57 tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2014-04-17 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 10:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 14:03     ` Luck, Tony
2014-04-17 15:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 16:54         ` Josh Boyer
2014-04-17 19:23           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 19:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-17 19:42               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-17 20:58                 ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found]                   ` <CAK7FoDt6tnknX7cioe7=2svVksyAyLUtoZX_oprzJNxoHZEpdw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17 21:30                     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-04-17 22:20                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-18  8:07                         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-18  9:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-25  8:47                           ` Chen, Gong
2014-04-25 13:15                             ` Ingo Molnar

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