linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86, MCE: Flesh out when to panic comment

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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 21:53:56 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86, MCE: Flesh out when to panic comment

>> I think the comment is still not explaining the big part of what the
>> discussion was about -- i.e. if it was in kernel context, we always
>> panic.
>
> I thought the pointer to mce_severity was enough? People should open an
> editor and look at the function and at its gory insanity. :-P

It is far from obvious that mce_severity() will always say that an error
detected inside the kernel will be fatal.

-Tony