Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:45:18 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 17/51: Disable MCE checking during suspend.
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Hi!

> > > > > Avoid a potential SMP deadlock here.
> > > > 
> > > > ..and loose MCE report.
> > > 
> > > Deadlock or get an MCE report and do a printk when we're shutting down
> > > anyway?
> > 
> > If MCE happens, I'd like user to report it. Loosing it is wrong,
> > deadlocking may be actually better because at least you get the
> > report. I'd BUG(). 
> > 
> > MCEs are hardware problem, right? They should not be common.
> 
> It's not them occurring that's the problem, it's checking for them that
> involves an SMP call :<

Oops, that bad... and checking is done periodically? That's bad. Okay,
your solution is right here.
								Pavel
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