Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Replace if statement with WARN_ON_ONCE() incmci_rediscover().

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:10:24AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> I don't why before we just jumped over it. But I think if we have an
> online cpu == dying here, it must be wrong. So I think we should warn
> it, not just jump over it.

Why do we need to warn? What good would that bring us?

AFAICT, the check in cmci_rediscover is there to make sure we absolutely
don't rediscover on the dying cpu. I think it is a safety precaution in
concurrency scenarios between cpu hotplug and mce code.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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