Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86-mce: Add spinlocks to prevent duplicated MCP and CMCI reports.

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:57:06AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> You don't know if the bank is shared or not. If it is not shared, then
> the above code might skip reading the bank because some other cpu is
> busy reading that bank number - and seeing its own private bank.

Grrr, I see what you mean.

Hmm, can we serialize machine_check_poll per CPU in a cheaper way?
Disabling interrupts around the reads is certainly fine but still too
heavy-handed IMO.

I'll think about it more tomorrow - my brain is twisted enough for
today. :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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