Re: [Patch V1] x86, mce: Ensure offline CPU's don't participate in mce rendezvous process.

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 18:15:59 EST


On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:11:12PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > With that hunk here you want to clear MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS in the
> > !cfg->banks case, right?
>
> I can't imagine how we'd get into do_machine_check without any banks.
>
> Would indeed be a separate patch ... but value seems limited.

Then we should kill that hunk. I'm all for not covering improbable
cases.

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