x86/mce: Avoid potential deadlock due to printk() in MCE context
Printing in MCE context is a no-no, currently, as printk() is not NMI-safe. If some of the notifiers on the MCE chain call do so, we may deadlock. In order to avoid that, delay printk() to process context where it is safe. Reported-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> [ Fold in subsequent patch from Boris for early boot logging. ] Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ Kick irq_work in mce_log() directly. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439396985-12812-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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