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yaml --- r: 138627 b: refs/heads/master c: 123aa76 h: refs/heads/master i: 138625: 2b4bf76 138623: 3d9b685 v: v3
git-mirror · Feb 17, 2009 · c59a091 · c59a091
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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 973a2dd1d50a11d380086601f14e59116f93e8c5
+refs/heads/master: 123aa76ec0cab5d4881cd8509faed43231e68801
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/trunk/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ extern void mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 #else
 #define mcheck_init(c) do { } while (0)
 #endif
-extern void stop_mce(void);
-extern void restart_mce(void);
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_MCE_H */
diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -414,9 +414,17 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
 	   that might execute the to be patched code.
 	   Other CPUs are not running. */
 	stop_nmi();
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
-	stop_mce();
-#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * Don't stop machine check exceptions while patching.
+	 * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this
+	 * case we must do something about the corruption.
+	 * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race.
+	 * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU
+	 * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't
+	 * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code
+	 * patching.
+	 */
 
 	apply_alternatives(__alt_instructions, __alt_instructions_end);
 
@@ -456,9 +464,6 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
 				(unsigned long)__smp_locks_end);
 
 	restart_nmi();
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
-	restart_mce();
-#endif
 }
 
 /**

diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_32.c b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_32.c
@@ -60,20 +60,6 @@ void mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	}
 }
 
-static unsigned long old_cr4 __initdata;
-
-void __init stop_mce(void)
-{
-	old_cr4 = read_cr4();
-	clear_in_cr4(X86_CR4_MCE);
-}
-
-void __init restart_mce(void)
-{
-	if (old_cr4 & X86_CR4_MCE)
-		set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_MCE);
-}
-
 static int __init mcheck_disable(char *str)
 {
 	mce_disabled = 1;

diff --git a/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c b/trunk/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
@@ -680,20 +680,6 @@ static struct miscdevice mce_log_device = {
 	&mce_chrdev_ops,
 };
 
-static unsigned long old_cr4 __initdata;
-
-void __init stop_mce(void)
-{
-	old_cr4 = read_cr4();
-	clear_in_cr4(X86_CR4_MCE);
-}
-
-void __init restart_mce(void)
-{
-	if (old_cr4 & X86_CR4_MCE)
-		set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_MCE);
-}
-
 /*
  * Old style boot options parsing. Only for compatibility.
  */