Re: [PATCHv2 -rt 3.10.x] mce: don't try to wake thread before it exists.

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* Paul Gortmaker | 2014-09-04 11:29:27 [-0400]:

>If a broken machine with issues raises an MCE irq event real
>early in the boot, it can try and wake the -rt specific handler
>thread (mce_notify_helper) before it exists.  (It is created
>through a device_initcall that happens later in the boot.)  When
>this happens, we see the irq, which calls the wake with a null
>pointer, which then panics the machine at boot.

applied.

Sebastian
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