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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:24:27 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Question about qspinlock nest
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:02:29AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Well, x86 too has multiple non-maskable vectors, and afaik only the
> actual NMI vector is covered in tricky. But our MCE vector is
> non-maskable too (and I have vague memories of there being more).
> 
> Boris, Rostedt, WTH happens if our MCE code goes and hits a #BP ? (not
> unlikely with this proliferation of self-modifying code)
> 
> Anyway, the idea is that they can indeed not interrupt themselves, but I
> would not be surprised if the whole MCE thing is riddled with fail (on
> x86).

As we talked on IRC: we'll apply a mixture of "So don't do that
then!" hints i.e., kprobing MCE code etc, and fix the issues like the
schedule_work() invocation.

In general, I'd like to make/keep the #MC handler as simple and
as idiot-proof as possible.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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