linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] x86, mce, severities: Define mce

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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2015 07:10:42 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com>
Cc:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"slaoub@...il.com" <slaoub@...il.com>,
	"luto@...capital.net" <luto@...capital.net>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] x86, mce, severities: Define mce_severity
 function pointer

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:35:26PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> Other function pointers in the mce code like unexpected_machine_check
> and default_threshold_interrupt are assigned to the respective
> function pointers when they are defined.

The "WTF?!" would still fire and we don't want that.

Also, I'm not sure about returning MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY by default.
I mean, the code for !(Intel || AMD) has worked just fine with the
original severities, i.e., mce_severity_intel() now.

So maybe we should assign mce_severity_intel() on static init of the
mce_severity pointer and override it only on AMD...

This keeps the old behaviour for other machines, in the manner of
letting sleeping dogs lie...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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