linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]: mce: don't print "human readable" message for corrected errors

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:58:42 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dzickus@...hat.com,
	mstowe@...hat.com, dnelson@...hat.com, tony.luck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: mce: don't print "human readable" message for
 corrected errors

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:44:05PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Don't display the "human readable" warning for correctable errors in mce.
> There is no need for this information to be displayed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>

Why not? This way you turn reporting of _ALL_ correctable MCEs
completely off and some users would actually like to run them through
mcelog on Intel.

> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
> index 450a366..8024013 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
> @@ -100,10 +100,16 @@ ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
>  
>  static int default_decode_mce(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
> -			       void *data)
> +			      void *data)
>  {
> -	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.\n");
> -	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.\n");
> +	struct mce *m = (struct mce *)data;
> +
> +	if (m->status & MCI_STATUS_UC) {
> +		pr_emerg(HW_ERR "No human readable MCE decoding support "
> +			 "on this CPU type.\n");
> +		pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' "
> +			 "to decode.\n");
> +	}
>  
>  	return NOTIFY_STOP;
>  }
> --
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-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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