Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine checkrecovery if it is safe

From: Tony Luck
Date: Mon May 14 2012 - 14:02:59 EST


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was wondering about that but don't have any other flags/use cases.
> Well, we can always change it later if needed.

So is that an Ack? I was thinking that I should send this part to
Linus now ... since restarting from a fault when RIPV isn't set
could result in an application doing something bad (like getting
the wrong answer).

The instruction stuff is new and needs to wait for the merge window.

-Tony
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