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Message-ID: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F192ED527@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 16:23:06 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine
 check recovery if it is safe

> How about using following condition to decrease the execution time?
> if (mi->restartable == 0 ||
>    memory_failure(pfn, MCE_VECTOR, MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) < 0)
>
> Since restart operation is impossible, whether recovery operation can
> be avoided?

Because I still want the side-effects from memory_failure() of
marking the page as poisoned and SRAO signal to other users of
the page (or no signal at all to the others for clean LRU page).

Perhaps this deserves a comment

-Tony

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