Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755495Ab0FXNd0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:33:26 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:41830 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754822Ab0FXNdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:33:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:33:23 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Huang Ying , "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mauro@elte.hu Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work Message-ID: <20100624133323.GN578@basil.fritz.box> References: <1277375409.1875.943.camel@laptop> <20100624105254.GB578@basil.fritz.box> <1277377121.1875.948.camel@laptop> <20100624110830.GC578@basil.fritz.box> <1277377852.1875.950.camel@laptop> <20100624112340.GA13502@elte.hu> <1277379294.1875.959.camel@laptop> <20100624123537.GA28884@elte.hu> <20100624130234.GM578@basil.fritz.box> <20100624132032.GA4474@kryptos.osrc.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100624132032.GA4474@kryptos.osrc.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 20 > If its a critical error you do all the handling in the kernel and you I assume you mean in MCE. And the answer is no. MCE generally can only panic or log, everything else needs other contexts. > don't need task context at all, no? Process context is needed for various recovery schemes, all that need to sleep for example. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/