On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:10:24AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote: > I don't why before we just jumped over it. But I think if we have an > online cpu == dying here, it must be wrong. So I think we should warn > it, not just jump over it.
Why do we need to warn? What good would that bring us? AFAICT, the check in cmci_rediscover is there to make sure we absolutely don't rediscover on the dying cpu. I think it is a safety precaution in concurrency scenarios between cpu hotplug and mce code. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/