linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 4/5] GHES: Elliminate double-loop in the NMI handler

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Message-Id: <1427448178-20689-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:22:57 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/5] GHES: Elliminate double-loop in the NMI handler

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

There's no real need to iterate twice over the HW error sources in the
NMI handler. With the previous cleanups, elliminating the second loop is
almost trivial.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
---
 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
index 0de3adcca03e..94a44bad5576 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -851,25 +851,18 @@ static int ghes_notify_nmi(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		if (sev >= GHES_SEV_PANIC)
 			__ghes_panic(ghes);
 
-		ret = NMI_HANDLED;
-	}
-
-	if (ret == NMI_DONE)
-		goto out;
-
-	list_for_each_entry_rcu(ghes, &ghes_nmi, list) {
 		if (!(ghes->flags & GHES_TO_CLEAR))
 			continue;
 
 		__process_error(ghes);
 		ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
+
+		ret = NMI_HANDLED;
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	irq_work_queue(&ghes_proc_irq_work);
 #endif
-
-out:
 	raw_spin_unlock(&ghes_nmi_lock);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.3.3

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