RE: [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/mce: dump error msg from severities

[Luck, Tony]

> The message in severities is useful for identifying the type of MCE that
> has occurred; dump it if it is valid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
> index 2919a077cd66..c1319db45b0a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
> @@ -1456,6 +1456,8 @@ static void queue_task_work(struct mce_hw_err *err, char *msg, void (*func)(stru
>       if (count > 1)
>               return;
>
> +     if (msg)
> +             pr_err("%s\n", msg);
>       task_work_add(current, &current->mce_kill_me, TWA_RESUME);
>  }

This is called from the #MC handler. Is that a safe context to print a console
message? It wasn't in the past, but maybe changes to how console messages
are handled have changed this.

-Tony