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Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made

From Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made
Date 2017-02-21 09:50 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:28:20AM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
> Not kdump kernel starts dumping, just during nmi_shootdown_cpus(), if some
> MCE comes after crashing_cpu was set and we don't skip crashing_cpu, then
> the crashing cpu will enter mce handler and trigger the synchronization issue.

Ok, I went and looked at __crash_kexec() - so we do nmi_shootdown_cpus()
as part of machine_crash_shutdown(). The next thing we do is kexec the
new kernel in machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image). The picture is clearer
now.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> - 2017-02-20 07:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-20 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> - 2017-02-20 14:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-20 21:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> - 2017-02-21 02:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-21 09:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> - 2017-02-21 02:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> - 2017-02-21 13:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once  nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-21 18:30 +0100

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