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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c index ae1697c2afe3..d56405309dc1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c @@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ * Also supports reliable discovery of shared banks. */ +/* + * CMCI can be delivered to multiple cpus that share a machine check bank + * so we need to designate a single cpu to process errors logged in each bank + * in the interrupt handler (otherwise we would have many races and potential + * double reporting of the same error). + * Note that this can change when a cpu is offlined or brought online since + * some MCA banks are shared across cpus. When a cpu is offlined, cmci_clear() + * disables CMCI on all banks owned by the cpu and clears this bitfield. At + * this point, cmci_rediscover() kicks in and a different cpu may end up + * taking ownership of some of the shared MCA banks that were previously + * owned by the offlined cpu. + */ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_banks_owned); /* |