Re: [PATCH] [9/20] x86: Don't use oops_begin in 64bit mce code

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 05:39:29 EST



* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is not really useful to lock machine checks against oopses. And
> machine checks normally don't nest, so they don't need their own
> locking. Just call bust_spinlock/console_verbose directly.

is this in response to any particular incident you've seen?

Ingo
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