Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] ACPI, x86: Extended error log driver for x86 platform

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jun 27 2014 - 17:14:57 EST


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:43:14PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Not all machine checks are fatal - it would be bad for us to go into
> an infinite spin instead of executing the recovery code.

Then for the time being extlog shouldn't hook into the decoder chain
but into mce_process_work, i.e. the last should call it. Or maybe add
another notifier which is not atomic...
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