Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/mce: Simplify flow when handling recoverable memory errors

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Nov 12 2014 - 12:21:39 EST


Sorry, I am a bit confused...

On 11/11, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> Roughly speaking, we want to be able to mark a task with the sign of
> death and to kill it, if needed.

"it" is current, yes?

So I agree with Andy, task_work_add() can work and you can also pass
paddr/restartable to the handler.

But,

> The important part is *before* it
> gets to run again.

But it is already running? Perhaps you meant "before it returns to
user-mode" ?

Oleg.

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