On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 09:12:24PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:55:24AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > > I don't think that helps as much as you'd like it to help (at > > least on Intel). A broadcast machine check that finds the boot > > CPU has set CR4[MCE]=1 is still going to end up in reset if any > > other CPU still has CR4[MCE]=0 > > By leaving/moving the setting of CR4 earlier on all cores, we'll > at least make the possible window for such potential resets a lot > smaller...
... and in general, I'm still unsure about *why* we need this change for hotplug. bigeasy, can you please clarify first? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.