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Borislav Petkov committed 51cbe7e7c40
x86, MCE: Robustify mcheck_init_device BorisO reports that misc_register() fails often on xen. The current code unregisters the CPU hotplug notifier in that case. If then a CPU is offlined and onlined back again, we end up with a second timer running on that CPU, leading to soft lockups and system hangs. So let's leave the hotcpu notifier always registered - even if mce_device_create failed for some cores and never unreg it so that we can deal with the timer handling accordingly. Reported-and-Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403274493-1371-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>