x86, mce: don't disable machine checks during code patching

Impact: low priority bug fix

This removes part of a a patch I added myself some time ago. After some
consideration the patch was a bad idea. In particular it stopped machine check
exceptions during code patching.

To quote the comment:

        * 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.

So undo the machine check related parts of
8f4e956b31 NMIs are still disabled.

This only removes code, the only additions are a new comment.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andi Kleen
2009-02-12 13:39:27 +01:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 973a2dd1d5
commit 123aa76ec0
4 changed files with 11 additions and 36 deletions

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@@ -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;

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@@ -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.
*/