Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Schedule work after restart from sysfs update

From: Slade Watkins
Date: Wed Mar 01 2023 - 17:19:04 EST


On 3/1/23 17:14, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> A recent change introduced a flag to queue up errors found during
> boot-time polling. These errors will be processed during late init once
> the MCE subsystem is fully set up.
>
> A number of sysfs updates call mce_restart() which goes through a subset
> of the CPU init flow. This includes polling MCA banks and logging any
> errors found. Since the same function is used as boot-time polling,
> errors will be queued. However, the system is now past late init, so the
> errors will remain queued until another error is found and the workqueue
> is triggered.
>
> Call mce_schedule_work() at the end of mce_restart() so that queued
> errors are processed.
>
> Fixes: 3bff147b187d ("x86/mce: Defer processing of early errors")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yazen,
Despite Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx being here, the list wasn't Cc'd on this
email. Figured I'd let you know in case you create a v3 or resend at any point :).

Cheers,
-- Slade