linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 5/6] x86-mce: check if no_way_out applies before deciding not to clear MCE banks.

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2014 23:27:07 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...gle.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ewout van Bekkum <ewout@...gle.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/6] x86-mce: check if no_way_out applies before
 deciding not to clear MCE banks.

> to run with tolerant=3, but I kind of understood the logic to be that
> if we're going to keep running, we need to clear the banks, and if
> we're going to crash, we need to leave them intact 

That makes sense ... fold some text like that into the commit
description, and this part is:

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>