mcelog.next = 0
mcelog.next++ (1)
(working on entry 0)
mcelog.next++ (2)
(working on entry 1)
<----------------- race ---------------->
(done on entry 1,
finished = 1)
(done on entry 1,
finished = 1)
To fix the race condition, a cmpxchg loop is added to mce_read() to
ensure no new MCE record can be added between mcelog.next reading and
mcelog.next = 0.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> 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>