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authorChen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>2015-08-12 18:29:37 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-08-13 10:12:51 +0200
commitf29a7aff4bd60ebc3da4982f80144a4158c4c74a (patch)
tree1403d279016fbaba44d00cb98e038b439fc50d65 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
parentx86/mce: Remove the MCE ring for Action Optional errors (diff)
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x86/mce: Avoid potential deadlock due to printk() in MCE context
Printing in MCE context is a no-no, currently, as printk() is not NMI-safe. If some of the notifiers on the MCE chain call do so, we may deadlock. In order to avoid that, delay printk() to process context where it is safe. Reported-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> [ Fold in subsequent patch from Boris for early boot logging. ] Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ Kick irq_work in mce_log() directly. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439396985-12812-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
index a1aef9533154..34c89a3e8260 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ void apei_mce_report_mem_error(int severity, struct cper_sec_mem_err *mem_err)
m.addr = mem_err->physical_addr;
mce_log(&m);
- mce_notify_irq();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apei_mce_report_mem_error);