[RFC,3/5] GHES: Panic right after detection

Commit Message

Borislav Petkov March 27, 2015, 9:22 a.m. UTC

From: Borislav Petkov <[e-mail]>

The moment we log an error of panic severity, there's no need to noodle
through the ghes_nmi list anymore. So panic instead right then and
there.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 16 ++++++----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
index 712ed95b1dca..0de3adcca03e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -837,9 +837,8 @@  static void __ghes_panic(struct ghes *ghes)
 
 static int ghes_notify_nmi(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	struct ghes *ghes, *ghes_global = NULL;
-	int sev, sev_global = -1;
-	int ret = NMI_DONE;
+	struct ghes *ghes;
+	int sev, ret = NMI_DONE;
 
 	raw_spin_lock(&ghes_nmi_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(ghes, &ghes_nmi, list) {
@@ -847,20 +846,17 @@  static int ghes_notify_nmi(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
 			ghes_clear_estatus(ghes);
 			continue;
 		}
+
 		sev = ghes_severity(ghes->estatus->error_severity);
-		if (sev > sev_global) {
-			sev_global = sev;
-			ghes_global = ghes;
-		}
+		if (sev >= GHES_SEV_PANIC)
+			__ghes_panic(ghes);
+
 		ret = NMI_HANDLED;
 	}
 
 	if (ret == NMI_DONE)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (sev_global >= GHES_SEV_PANIC)
-		__ghes_panic(ghes_global);
-
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(ghes, &ghes_nmi, list) {
 		if (!(ghes->flags & GHES_TO_CLEAR))
 			continue;