Re: x86/mce: suspicious RCU usage in 4.13.4

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 12 2017 - 18:14:14 EST


On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:02:52AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:11:37PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Sorry I take back what I wrote earlier. This RCU is actually still needed,
> > otherwise the reader could see partially written entries.
>
> Why? All the readers and writers take the mutex now.

Ok fair enough.
-Andi