3.2.81-rt117-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Corey Minyard On some x86 systems an MCE interrupt would come in before the kernel was ready for it. Looking at the latest RT code, it has similar (but not quite the same) code, except it adds a bool that tells if MCE handling is initialized. That was required because they had switched to use swork instead of a kernel thread. Here, just checking to see if the thread is NULL is good enough to see if MCE handling is initialized. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index b08a373f66fb..fc02fe279ddc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -1206,7 +1206,8 @@ static int mce_notify_work_init(void) static void mce_notify_work(void) { - wake_up_process(mce_notify_helper); + if (mce_notify_helper) + wake_up_process(mce_notify_helper); } #else static void mce_notify_work(void) -- 2.8.1