linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mce, acpi/apei: Soft-offline a page on firmware GHES notification

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:38:44 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tony.luck@...el.com, ananth@...ibm.com, masbock@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lcm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, ying.huang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mce, acpi/apei: Soft-offline a page on firmware
 GHES notification

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:57:01PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 12:30 AM, Tony Luck wrote:
> > I was off on vacation last week - looks like you got lots done without me
> > :-)
> > 
> > I have parts 1 & 2 applied to an internal tree. Looks like parts 3 & 4 need
> > a few final polishes to get an Ack from Boris.
> 
> Cool :)
> Here is the updated patch for part 3 incorporating Boris's comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> Naveen
> --
> 
> If the firmware indicates in GHES error data entry that the error threshold
> has exceeded for a corrected error event, then we try to soft-offline the
> page. This could be called in interrupt context, so we queue this up similar
> to how we handle memory failure scenarios.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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