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Message-ID: <4AC9633B.5030202@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:08:43 +0900
From:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] mce-inject: add a barrier to raise_mce()

The prepared mce_inject_cpumask needs to be referred soon in NMI
on other CPUs.

Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
index 105e527..4fb5b78 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ static void raise_mce(struct mce *m)
 							!= MCE_INJ_CTX_RANDOM)
 				cpu_clear(cpu, mce_inject_cpumask);
 		}
+		/* make sure mce_inject_cpumask is visible on other CPUs */
+		smp_mb();
+
 		if (!cpus_empty(mce_inject_cpumask))
 			apic->send_IPI_mask(&mce_inject_cpumask, NMI_VECTOR);
 		start = jiffies;
-- 
1.6.4.3


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