linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 mce: use new printk recursion disabling interface

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 11:08:44 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	ShuoX Liu <shuox.liu@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 mce: use new printk recursion disabling interface

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:07:59AM +0800, ShuoX Liu wrote:
> Boris,
> I checked code and found some other functions in do_machine_check() also
> would printk something. Such as add_taint(). So i think we'd better
> place the recursion check at the beginning and the end of
> do_machine_check(). Also more printks later(maybe) added will benefit
> from this. Do you agree?

I'm not sure we want to disable printk recursion for add_taint() - it
doesn't spit out any useful information wrt MCE so we could ignore it.

Btw, I forgot to ask: this printk recursion disabling, do you have a
real usecase where you don't get the MCE info in dmesg and with your
patch it works or is this purely hypothetical?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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