x86, mce: don't disable machine checks during code patching

Impact: low priority bug fix

This removes part of a a patch I added myself some time ago. After some
consideration the patch was a bad idea. In particular it stopped machine check
exceptions during code patching.

To quote the comment:

        * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this
        * case we must do something about the corruption.
        * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race.
        * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU
        * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't
        * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code
        * patching.

So undo the machine check related parts of
8f4e956b313dcccbc7be6f10808952345e3b638c NMIs are still disabled.

This only removes code, the only additions are a new comment.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index 32c6e17b960b..5522273a3ad8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ extern void mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 #else
 #define mcheck_init(c) do { } while (0)
 #endif
-extern void stop_mce(void);
-extern void restart_mce(void);
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_MCE_H */