linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86/MCE: Remove MCP

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Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:37:50 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86/MCE: Remove MCP_TIMESTAMP

> One other possibility would be to use ->time and write ->tsc *only*
> when exact - i.e., in the handler - and this is then enough info about
> timing.
>
> ->time will give you somewhere around where it happened and ->tsc - only
> if set - will give you exact, well, *timestamp* :)
>
> This sounds like a pretty straightforward logic to me...

Also to me ... and I think that's what used to happen (or at least was the
intent).

-Tony