Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: correct cpu_missing reporting in mce_timed_out

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Nov 04 2021 - 14:02:43 EST


On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 03:47:36PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Frankly, we might just as well kill that cpu_missing thing because we
> > already say that some CPUs are not responding.
>
> Yes. The more recent commit:
>
> 7bb39313cd62 ("x86/mce: Make mce_timed_out() identify holdout CPUs")
>
> tries to provide the more detailed message about *which* CPUs are missing

Exactly.

> I think cpu_missing can be dropped.

Zhaolong, you could send a patch doing that, instead.

Thx.

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