linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Make timer handling more robust

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Message-ID: <20170131183656.vfishl2fklz76cc4@pd.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:36:56 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Erik Veijola <erik.veijola@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Make timer handling more robust

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:37:34AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Erik reported that on a preproduction hardware a CMCI storm triggers the
> BUG_ON in add_timer_on(). The reason is that the per CPU MCE timer is
> started by the CMCI logic before the MCE cpu hotplug callback starts the

nitpick:				   CPU

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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