On Thursday 03 January 2008 11:39:12 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is not really useful to lock machine checks against oopses. And > > machine checks normally don't nest, so they don't need their own > > locking. Just call bust_spinlock/console_verbose directly. > > is this in response to any particular incident you've seen?
No, that was a preparatory patch for the "use 64bit machine check code for 32bit kernels" because 32bit doesn't have oops_begin(), but it is useful on its own. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
