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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD: Always give PANIC severity for UC errors in kernel context
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:26:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170927152635.eihhaeumf43gprkq@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR1201MB0131AC2EE7B4D0D674EEF8BFF8780@BN6PR1201MB0131.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 03:17:51PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> Generally, we can use the IN_KERNEL_RECOV context to show that the error
> is recoverable versus IN_KERNEL which we can consider unrecoverable.
> 
> Specifically, the Intel SER and AMD SUCCOR features represent the same
> thing (MCA Recovery). I'll send another patch for enabling recovery on
> AMD SUCCOR systems. I want to keep this patch as just a bug fix.

Ok, but then do not mention IN_KERNEL_RECOV here as it only confuses: is
it a recoverable error or is it not? /me scratches head...

> Sure, I'll do this in another patch. I want to keep this as a bug fix
> to apply to the stable branches.

Sure.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-27 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-19 14:07 Yazen Ghannam
2017-09-26 12:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-26 15:21   ` Ghannam, Yazen
2017-09-26 22:20     ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-27 15:17       ` Ghannam, Yazen
2017-09-27 15:26         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-11-21 15:05 [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD: Always give panic " Yazen Ghannam

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