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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 01:31:59PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> @@ -321,18 +321,8 @@ static void __print_mce(struct mce *m)
>  
>  static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
> -
>  	__print_mce(m);
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * Print out human-readable details about the MCE error,
> -	 * (if the CPU has an implementation for that)
> -	 */
> -	ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
> -	if (ret == NOTIFY_STOP)
> -		return;
> -
> +	mce_log(m);

Actually, we don't need that call here because do_machine_check()
already does it.

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