linux-kernel - RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 18:08:21 +0000
From:	"Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@...el.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"'xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com'" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen
 platform

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 05:27:53PM +0000, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:57:44PM +0000, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>>>>> From 1a7951d6ca01d7f2c9dd2bdb6de5f8e7fdcb8bbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
>>>>> 2001
>>>> From: root <root@...romley.bj.intel.com>
>>> 
>>> Also your git author is busted. I fixed it up for you but
>>> you might want to run 'git config --user.name' and such
>> 
>> Ah, I forgot it. Thanks for fix it.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 03:12:51 +0800
>>>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform
>>> 
>>> What about the cvt_gate_to_trap? Does that need something similar
>>> to "xen/mce: Register native mce handler as vMCE bounce back point"
>>> ?
>> 
>> That's vMCE injection logic.
> 
> Are you sure about it? The comments in it speak of piggybacking on
> the native MCE handling routines. But since that is not used anymore
> do you need to use a different mechanism?

What is not used anymore? what's your concern about cvt_gate_to_trap? I really confused here.
Could you elaborate more?

> 
>> anyway, I will present new round of patch according to Boris and
>> your commends, as following [Patch 1/3]
>> xen-mce-Add-mcelog-support-for-Xen-platform.patch [Patch 2/3]
>> X86-MCE-AMD-Adjust-initcall-sequence-for-xen.patch [Patch 3/3]
>> Register-native-mce-handler-as-vMCE-bounce-back-poin.patch 
> 
> Please look at
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git;a=commit;h=894c02d298cb638f3ff04bdbf41f646a0223bf05
> as it has some of the mistakes fixed (spelling mistakes, wrong title,
> etc).   

Seems you have checkin my patch for vMCE injection to your tree.
If yes, I quit my [Patch 3/3] sent out half hour ago.

>>> 
>>> I stuck all these patches on devel/mce.v2 on
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
>> 
>> Hmm, we discussed base-tree problem before, and decided to use linus
>> latest tree. 
>> I pull this morning and rebase my patches based on
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>> c/s a01ee165a132fadb57659d26246e340d6ac53265
> 
> Which I think the tree is based on too.

So it would not be stuck?

Thanks,
Jinsong--
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