Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, mce: change the mce notifier to 'blocking' from 'atomic'

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Apr 12 2017 - 18:29:46 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:26:19PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> We can futz with that and have them specify which chain (or both)
> that they want to be added to.

Well, I didn't want the atomic chain to be a notifier because we can
keep it simple and non-blocking. Only the process context one will be.

So the question is, do we even have a use case for outside consumers
hanging on the atomic chain? Because if not, we're good to go.

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