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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:34:04 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] #MC mess
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:11:10PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Then please rewrite the #MC entry code to deal with nested exceptions
> > unmasking the MCE, very similr to NMI.
> 
> #MC doesn't work like NMI.  It isn't enabled by IRET.  Nested #MC cause an
> immediate reset.  Detection of nested case is by IA32_MCG_STATUS.MCIP.
> We don't clear MCG_STATUS until we are ready to return from the machine
> check handler.

Ooh, excellent! That saves a whole heap of problems.

Then I suppose we should work at getting in_nmi() set. Let me have
another look at things.