Re: [Patch V2] x86, mce: Ensure offline CPU's don't participate in mce rendezvous process.

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Dec 07 2015 - 15:20:10 EST


On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:04:30PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast exception handler
>
> Is that what we printed in this case? ... boy is that a misleading message ... we got *extra*
> cpus (the offline ones), not "Not all".
>
> Good job we have a fix :-)

Well, we still have that printk string in there.

And that is incorrect too, because the MCE (at least the one I'm
injecting) gets broadcasted to the CPUs on the *node* and not to the
whole system.

If we had to be precise, text should say "Not all CPUs which the MCE was
broadcasted to entered the exception handler..."

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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