Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the luto-misc tree with the tip tree

From: Borislav Petkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:35:01 +0100

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 05:08:39PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the luto-misc tree got a conflict in
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c between commit 83737691e586 ("x86,
> mce: Fix sparse errors") from the tip tree and commit d4812e169de4
> ("x86, mce: Get rid of TIF_MCE_NOTIFY and associated mce tricks") from
> the luto-misc tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (the latter removed some of the code changed by the
> former) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action is required).

That must be the piece of the hunk touching mce_info. Yes, the correct
solution is to follow what d4812e169de4 does.

Thanks Stephen :)

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 800d423f1e92..d23179900755 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1004,51 +1004,6 @@ static void mce_clear_state(unsigned long *toclear)
 }
 
 /*
- * Need to save faulting physical address associated with a process
- * in the machine check handler some place where we can grab it back
- * later in mce_notify_process()
- */
-#define        MCE_INFO_MAX    16
-
-struct mce_info {
-       atomic_t                inuse;
-       struct task_struct      *t;
-       __u64                   paddr;
-       int                     restartable;
-} mce_info[MCE_INFO_MAX];

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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