Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] New way to track mce notifier chain actions

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 09:52:39PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I HATE notifier chains for exceptions, and I REALLY HATE NOTIFY_STOP.
> I don't suppose we could rig something up so that they are simply
> notifiers (for MCE and, eventually, for everything) and just outright
> prevent them from modifying the processing?

As in: they all get executed unconditionally and there's no NOTIFY_STOP
and if they're not interested in the notification, they simply return
early?

Hohumm, sounds nicer.

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    Boris.

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