linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: mce: kexec: switch MCE handler for kexec/kdump

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Message-ID: <20150304091256.GE3233@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:12:56 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>,
	Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: mce: kexec: switch MCE handler for
 kexec/kdump

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:51:56AM +0000, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> And the result of the update, the new code contains some
> MCE-internal code, so I feel like putting most of the code in
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c as in the previous versions.

We can expose those defines for kdump's use if absolutely needed. mce.c
is already not easy to stare at, having more stuff in it, while it can
be avoided, is not something we want.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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