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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:26:17 -0800 From: "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> Cc: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@...mayhu.com>, Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ra.org>, Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>, tony.luck@...el.com, linux@...mhuis.info, len.brown@...el.com, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ashok.raj@...el.com Subject: Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 12:56:11AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Oh, and it's not like the user can do anything - there's a thermald > which is supposed to deal with all that. Which is not really > trouble-free too, TBH. What happens if that thing dies? Fried CPU? > > So I say we should rip out that mce_log_therm_throt_event() and never > ever handle thermal events with MCEs. It is a bad idea. Agree, since we have both a log and another agent to deal with it, it makes no good reason to continue... Will pass this along, and have someone look at cleaning this up. Cheers, Ashok
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