From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD PATCH] x86/mce: Make sure to send SIGBUS even after losing the race to poison a page
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 18:55:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903165530.GE5462@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200827163205.23096-1-tony.luck@intel.com>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 09:32:05AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> The #MC used to win that race and the page was taken offline and SIGBUS
> sent to the task.
>
> Changes to how Linux processes machine checks now mean that:
> a) Linux will offline the page based on the UCNA siganture in the
> CMCI handler.
Let's see if that logic makes sense: if #MC offlines the page and sends
SIGBUS but CMCI only offlines the page, isn't it only logical for the
CMCI to *also* send the SIGBUS too, after having offlined the page?
I.e., both should do the proper and full recovery action. Just sayin...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-03 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-27 16:32 Tony Luck
2020-08-28 8:11 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2020-09-03 16:55 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-09-03 17:09 ` Luck, Tony
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