Re: [GIT pull] smp/hotplug: Removal of notifiers

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 12/26/2016 01:21 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On 12/26/2016 10:45 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > The comment in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c says:
> > >
> > > 1384  * mcheck_init_device should be inited before threshold_init_device to
> > > 1385  * initialize mce_device, otherwise a NULL ptr dereference will cause panic.
>
> That's not changed by this commit.
>
> > My nightly test hit this as well. AMD only, Intel passed. I haven't
> > verified whether commit that Markus implicated is the one that caused
> > this but it's the same BUG signature (but possibly slightly different stack)
> >
> > [    1.554351] smpboot: CPU0: AMD Engineering Sample (family: 0x10,
> > model: 0x4, stepping: 0x1)
> > ...
>
> Is there anything interesting error message before the BUG hits? I'll try
> to reproduce on a AMD box tomorrow.


Nothing that caught my eye. I can post it tomorrow if you are still 
interested.

-boris