[v2 09/12] powerpc/mce: Enable MCE notifiers in external modules
Reza Arbab
arbab at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jul 9 01:23:18 AEST 2019
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 03:29:39PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>Okay. It might be possible to save the address in the kernel and
>then notify the driver afterward. For user-mode and any non-atomic
>user copy AFAIK the irq_work should practically run synchronously
>after the machine check returns so it might be enough to have a
>notifier in the irq work processing.
We can pick up this thread later, but if I remember correctly the
sticking point we ran into was that we never got that far. Instead of
returning from the MCE, we went down the fatal codepath.
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Reza Arbab
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