linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86/mce: Need to let kill_proc() send signal to doomed process

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:22:08 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86/mce: Need to let kill_proc() send signal to doomed
 process

> This makes mi->restartable unused?

It does ... but it's not what I meant ... somehow I lost the code that set MF_MUST_KILL
based on mi->restartable. Doh!

>> +	doit = !!PageDirty(ppage) || (flags & MF_MUST_KILL) != 0;
>
> Maybe
>
>				     !!(flags & MF_MUST_KILL)

That fits stylistically with the other half of the "||" expression.

Thanks for the review. I'll update and resend.

-Tony
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