Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751483AbbEDAfT (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 20:35:19 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29903 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751160AbbEDAfO (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 20:35:14 -0400 Message-ID: <5546BE98.5030208@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 08:34:32 +0800 From: ethan zhao Organization: Oracle Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: Ethan Zhao , tony.luck@intel.com, Thomas Gleixner , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, LKML , tim.uglow@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: fix mce_restart() race with CPU hotplug operation References: <1430319893-23399-1-git-send-email-ethan.zhao@oracle.com> <20150430162945.GH3488@pd.tnic> <20150503093757.GD18048@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20150503093757.GD18048@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1027 Lines: 25 Borislav, On 2015/5/3 17:37, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:03:48PM +0800, Ethan Zhao wrote: >>> For the record, it is a public secret that CPU hotplug is broken. IOW, >>> you're wasting your time with those senseless pounder tests but ok. >> :<, Someone else is stressing the CPU hotplug, seems it is fragile. >> My job is holding the system, not panic to the ground. > Please forward my message to that someone else then. The whole world Got it. Thanks, Ethan > knows CPU hotplug is fragile and there are people working on improving > that. There's no need for you guys to pound on it, we know it is broken. > I'm sure you can find a lot other things in the kernel to pound on. > Things which make a lot more sense than CPU hotplug. > > Thanks. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/