From: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: "Mike Waychison" <mikew@google.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, borislav.petkov@amd.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
mikew@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add an option to disable decoding of MCE
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:55:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43835.148.87.67.136.1294700112.squirrel@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294699587-2362-1-git-send-email-mikew@google.com>
On Mon, January 10, 2011 2:46 pm, Mike Waychison wrote:
> This patch applies to v2.6.37.
> ---
>
>
> On our systems, we do not want to have any "decoders" called on machine
> check events. These decoders can easily spam our logs and cause space
> problems on machines that have a lot of correctable error events. We _do_
> however want to get the messages delivered via /dev/mcelog for userland
> processing.
>
> Introduce an interface "dont_decode" that allows us to skip the
> decoders. We always call the decoders by default.
>
> Google-Bug-Id: 3289142
> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 files
> changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Hi,
Please update Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
with this new option.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-10 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-10 22:46 Mike Waychison
2011-01-10 22:55 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2011-01-10 23:03 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-11 6:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-01-11 19:56 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-11 20:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-01-11 21:51 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-11 22:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-01-11 23:19 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-12 17:12 ` Tony Luck
2011-01-11 22:07 ` Duncan Laurie
2011-01-14 0:07 ` Tony Luck
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