Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: drop cpu_missing since we have more capable mce_missing_cpus

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 09 2021 - 14:48:22 EST


On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 04:06:48PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Just a note that skipping the mce_panic() here isn't going to help
> much. With some CPUs stuck not responding to #MC the system is going
> to lock up or crash for other timeouts in the next few seconds.

Yeh, I spent a couple of minutes today staring at this ->tolerant
thing and wondering why we need it at all. I wouldn't mind ripping it
altogether unless you're using it for testing or so.

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