Re: [RFC] x86_64: A real proposal for iret-less return to kernel

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:39:11PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> But if we get a new MCE in here, it will be an MCE from kernel context
> and it's fatal. So, yes, we'll clobber the stack, but we'll never
> return (unless tolerant is set to something insane), so who cares?

Ok, but we still have to do the work before returning to the process. So
if not mce_notify_process() how else are you suggesting we do this?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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