linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86-mce: check if no_way_out applies before deciding not to clear MCE banks.

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:49:21 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ewout van Bekkum <ewout@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86-mce: check if no_way_out applies before deciding
 not to clear MCE banks.

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:27:07PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > to run with tolerant=3, but I kind of understood the logic to be that
> > if we're going to keep running, we need to clear the banks, and if
> > we're going to crash, we need to leave them intact 
> 
> That makes sense ... fold some text like that into the commit
> description, and this part is:
> 
> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

Yep, makes sense.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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