Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'
Date	2017-04-13 00:30 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:26:19PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> We can futz with that and have them specify which chain (or both)
> that they want to be added to.

Well, I didn't want the atomic chain to be a notifier because we can
keep it simple and non-blocking. Only the process context one will be.

So the question is, do we even have a use case for outside consumers
hanging on the atomic chain? Because if not, we're good to go.

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    Boris.

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[RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic' Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2017-04-12 00:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-12 11:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2017-04-12 22:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-12 22:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking'  from 'atomic' "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2017-04-12 22:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic' Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-12 23:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-04-12 23:20 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-04-12 23:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-12 23:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-13 00:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-04-13 00:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-13 00:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-13 13:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-13 14:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-04-18 18:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking'  from 'atomic' "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2017-04-21 23:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-04-12 23:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-04-12 23:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-04-13 00:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-13 00:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-13 01:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from  'atomic' "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-13 16:40 +0200
  [tip:ras/urgent] x86/mce: Make the MCE notifier a blocking one tip-bot for Vishal Verma <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-04-18 22:30 +0200

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