linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/10] MCE: replace mce.c use of TIF_MCE_NOTIFY with user_return

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Message-ID: <4DF47959.5050603@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:31:21 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] MCE: replace mce.c use of TIF_MCE_NOTIFY with user_return_notifier

On 06/10/2011 11:42 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> You are right that we should have some better method - the
> shot-gun approach of hitting every task on every cpu in the hope
> that one of them will run our code soon sounds like overkill.
> Using some NMI-saf method to wake a single worker thread
> sounds a good idea for a subsequent clean up.
>

That's irq_work_queue().

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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