Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work

[Andi Kleen]

> If its a critical error you do all the handling in the kernel and you

I assume you mean in MCE.  And the answer is no.

MCE generally can only panic or log, everything else
needs other contexts.

> don't need task context at all, no? 

Process context is needed for various recovery schemes, all
that need to sleep for example.

-Andi
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