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

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 03 January 2008 11:39:12 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * 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?


No, that was a preparatory patch for the "use 64bit machine check code
for 32bit kernels" because 32bit doesn't have oops_begin(), but it is
useful on its own.

-Andi
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