Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] ghes_edac: avoid multiple calls to dmi_walk()

[Kani, Toshimitsu]

On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 18:42 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 03:26:04PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> > I believe you now need to protect from a race condition that a
> > single mci and pvt can be initialized / consumed from multiple
> > threads.ÂÂThis protection is missing in your patch.
> 
> Easy. Done.

Assuming this big spinlock works, yes, this addresses my concern that
it does not allow concurrent accesses to mci. :-)

I will test the patch with an SCI when I got a chance.  I won't be able
to test other notification types or race conditions, though.

Thanks,
-Toshi