Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'

[Luck, Tony]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:12:21PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> There is another solution:
> 
> Convert the notifier to a blocking notifier and in the panic case, ignore
> the locking and invoke the notifier chain directly. That needs some minimal
> surgery in the notifier code to allow that, but that's certainly less ugly
> than splitting stuff up into two chains.

But I wonder whether we actually want two chains.  We've been adding a bunch
of general run-time logging and recovery stuff to this chain. So now we have
things there that aren't needed or useful in the panic case. E.g.
srao_decode_notifier() (which tries to offline a page that reported an
uncorrected error out of the execution path) and Boris's new CEC code.

-Tony