From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@surriel.com
Subject: Re: Backporting to v5.6: fd258dc4442c ("x86/mce: Add Skylake quirk for patrol scrub reported errors")
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 11:38:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210401183803.GG2696@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210401181854.GB11782@zn.tnic>
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:18:54PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:17:40AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > We are looking at backporting fd258dc4442c ("x86/mce: Add Skylake quirk
> > for patrol scrub reported errors") to v5.6. When accompanied by these
> > guys, it passes our usual kernel smoke-testing:
> >
> > 1df73b2131e3 ("x86/mce: Fixup exception only for the correct MCEs")
> > 1de08dccd383 ("x86/mce: Add a struct mce.kflags field")
>
> why do you even need those two?
>
> fd258dc4442c gives you only an Action Optional severity for that
> particular error type and the other two patches are for recovery of
> errors in the kernel memory range, i.e., for pmem etc., so should be
> unrelated.
>
> I mean, it depends on what you want to backport, ofc.
Even better, thank you very much!
Thanx, Paul
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2021-04-01 16:17 Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-01 18:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-01 18:38 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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