linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] x86, mce, severity: extend the the mce

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Message-ID: <20141106154109.GD4318@pd.tnic>
Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:41:10 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Chen Yucong <slaoub@...il.com>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com,
	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] x86, mce, severity: extend the the mce_severity

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:54:19AM +0800, Chen Yucong wrote:
> If `no_way_out' equals 1, we may need to dump/decode corrected/deferred 
> error information. So if we use "NOEXCP" to initialize the deferred and
> UCNA table entries, do_machine_check will skip checking deferred/UCNA
> entry when `no_way_out' is set to 1.

I think we want to log every error when we're panicking, even the
deferred ones.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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