linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/63] edac_mce: Add an interface driver to report mce errors via edac

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:47:20 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	bluesmoke-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/63] edac_mce: Add an interface driver to report mce
 errors via edac

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:11:30 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com> wrote:

> 5) there are very few calls to kernel routines here:
> list_for_each_entry(), spin_lock_irqsave(), in_unlock_irqrestore(),
> memcpy(). I don't think any of them will have any problems on working
> even inside NMI context.

spinlocks in NMI context don't do what you think they do....
_irqsave does not disable NMIs so this can deadlock.

You likely want to use trylock here....


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