Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] x86 mce: use new printk recursion disablinginterface

[Yanmin Zhang]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 17:22 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:34:21PM +0800, ShuoX Liu wrote:
> > From: ShuoX Liu <shuox.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > On x86 machines, some times MCE happens just when kernel calls printk
> > to output some log info to serial console, while usually MCE module in
> > kernel is used to print out some hardware error information, such like
> > bad cache or bad memory bank. That causes printk recursion and printk
> > would omit MCE printk output.
> > 
> > We hit it when running MTBF testing on Android ATOM mobiles.
> > 
> > Here in mce_panic, we choose to disable printk recursion to make sure
> > MCE logs printed out.
> 
> Just a minor nitpick: this should say "print_mce" or you can simply
> remove the whole sentence - commit message is fine without it too.
Thanks for your very careful/detailed comments. We would make it perfect.


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