Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE: Add command line option to extend MCE Records pool

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 12:44:06PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> If it is the #MC adding new memory, agreed.
> 
> If the #MC is simply traversing the list, and the interrupted context
> was in the midst of adding a new element, this should be no worse than
> some other CPU traversing the list while this CPU is in the midst of
> adding a new element.

Right, Tony answered which context is doing what.

What I'm still scratching my head over is, why grab a spinlock around

	list_add_rcu(&chunk->next_chunk, &pool->chunks);

?

That's the part that looks really weird.

And that's the interrupted context, yap.

Thx.

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