Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:25:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, Owen tested a simpler patch that just changes the "get_cpu_var()"
> to "__get_cpu_var()" and avoids the preempt increment.

Which basically would be the same as doing this_cpu_write() in the
proposed fix - both don't touch preemption. So it is something else.
More staring...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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