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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 16:55:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 16:55:13 -0700
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patchbomb from Andrew) into next
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few fixes for 3.16. Cc'ed to stable so they'll get there somehow. - various misc fixes and cleanups - most of the ocfs2 queue. Review is slow... - most of MM. The MM queue is pretty huge this time, but not much in the way of feature work. - some tweaks under kernel/ - printk maintenance work - updates to lib/ - checkpatch updates - tweaks to init/ * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (276 commits) fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c: add __init to autofs_dev_ioctl_init fs/ncpfs/getopt.c: replace simple_strtoul by kstrtoul init/main.c: remove an ifdef kthreads: kill CLONE_KERNEL, change kernel_thread(kernel_init) to avoid CLONE_SIGHAND init/main.c: add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter init/main.c: don't use pr_debug() fs/binfmt_flat.c: make old_reloc() static fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bool assignements fs/efs: convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug fs/efs: add pr_fmt / use __func__ fs/efs: convert printk to pr_foo() scripts/checkpatch.pl: device_initcall is not the only __initcall substitute checkpatch: check stable email address checkpatch: warn on unnecessary void function return statements checkpatch: prefer kstrto<foo> to sscanf(buf, "%<lhuidx>", &bar); checkpatch: add warning for kmalloc/kzalloc with multiply checkpatch: warn on #defines ending in semicolon checkpatch: make --strict a default for files in drivers/net and net/ checkpatch: always warn on missing blank line after variable declaration block checkpatch: fix wildcard DT compatible string checking ...
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@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ PR_MCE_KILL
PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill
PR_MCE_KILL_LATE: Late kill
PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default
+ Note that if you want to have a dedicated thread which handles
+ the SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) on behalf of the process, you should
+ call prctl(PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY) on the designated thread. Otherwise,
+ the SIGBUS is sent to the main thread.
+
PR_MCE_KILL_GET
return current mode