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Promote one fix for 3.16

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This fix was necessary after
 
 9c15a24b03 ("x86/mce: Improve mcheck_init_device() error handling")
 
 went in. What this patch did was, among others, check the return value
 of misc_register and exit early if it encountered an error. Original
 code sloppily didn't do that.
 
 However,
 
         cef12ee52b ("xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform")
 
 made it so that xen's init routine xen_late_init_mcelog runs first. This
 was needed for the xen mcelog device which is supposed to be independent
 from the baremetal one.
 
 Initially it was reported that misc_register() fails often on xen and
 that's why it needed fixing. However, it is *supposed* to fail by
 design, when running in dom0 so that the xen mcelog device file gets
 registered first.
 
 And *then* you need the notifier *not* unregistered on the error path so
 that the timer does get deleted properly in the CPU hotplug notifier.
 
 Btw, this fix is needed also on baremetal in the unlikely event that
 misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device) fails there too.
 
 I was unsure whether to rush it in now and decided to delay it to 3.17.
 However, xen people wanted it promoted as it breaks xen when doing cpu
 hotplug there. So, after a bit of simmering in tip/master for initial
 smoke testing, let's move it to 3.16. It fixes a semi-regression which
 got introduced in 3.16 so no need for stable tagging.
 
 tip/x86/ras contains that exact same commit but we can't remove it
 there as it is not the last one. It won't cause any merge issues, as I
 confirmed locally but I should state here the special situation of this
 one fix explicitly anyway.
 
 Thanks.
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x86: Merge tag 'ras_urgent' into x86/urgent

Promote one fix for 3.16

This fix was necessary after

9c15a24b03 ("x86/mce: Improve mcheck_init_device() error handling")

went in. What this patch did was, among others, check the return value
of misc_register and exit early if it encountered an error. Original
code sloppily didn't do that.

However,

        cef12ee52b ("xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform")

made it so that xen's init routine xen_late_init_mcelog runs first. This
was needed for the xen mcelog device which is supposed to be independent
from the baremetal one.

Initially it was reported that misc_register() fails often on xen and
that's why it needed fixing. However, it is *supposed* to fail by
design, when running in dom0 so that the xen mcelog device file gets
registered first.

And *then* you need the notifier *not* unregistered on the error path so
that the timer does get deleted properly in the CPU hotplug notifier.

Btw, this fix is needed also on baremetal in the unlikely event that
misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device) fails there too.

I was unsure whether to rush it in now and decided to delay it to 3.17.
However, xen people wanted it promoted as it breaks xen when doing cpu
hotplug there. So, after a bit of simmering in tip/master for initial
smoke testing, let's move it to 3.16. It fixes a semi-regression which
got introduced in 3.16 so no need for stable tagging.

tip/x86/ras contains that exact same commit but we can't remove it
there as it is not the last one. It won't cause any merge issues, as I
confirmed locally but I should state here the special situation of this
one fix explicitly anyway.

Thanks.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
H. Peter Anvin 2014-07-24 16:32:31 -07:00
commit bf72f5dee0
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@ -2451,6 +2451,12 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void)
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
err = mce_device_create(i);
if (err) {
/*
* Register notifier anyway (and do not unreg it) so
* that we don't leave undeleted timers, see notifier
* callback above.
*/
__register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);
cpu_notifier_register_done();
goto err_device_create;
}
@ -2471,10 +2477,6 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void)
err_register:
unregister_syscore_ops(&mce_syscore_ops);
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
__unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);
cpu_notifier_register_done();
err_device_create:
/*
* We didn't keep track of which devices were created above, but