[PATCH 1/6] x86/mce: Don't clear shared banks on Intel when offlining CPUs

2015-10-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
From: Ashok Raj It is not safe to clear global MCi_CTL banks during CPU offline or suspend/resume operations. These MSRs are either thread-scoped (meaning private to a thread), or core-scoped (private to threads in that core only), or with a socket scope: visible and controllable from all

[PATCH 1/6] x86/mce: Don't clear shared banks on Intel when offlining CPUs

2015-10-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
From: Ashok Raj It is not safe to clear global MCi_CTL banks during CPU offline or suspend/resume operations. These MSRs are either thread-scoped (meaning private to a thread), or core-scoped (private to threads in that core only), or with a socket scope: visible and