linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v9 2/4] x86, mce: Check for faults tagged in EXTABLE_CLASS

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2016 15:11:11 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Robert <elliott@....com>, "Brian Gerst" <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v9 2/4] x86, mce: Check for faults tagged in
 EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT exception table entries

>> which is used to indicate that the machine check was triggered by code
>> in the kernel with a EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT fixup entry.
>
> I think that the EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT references no longer match the code.

You'd think that checkpatch could have spotted that the commit comment mentions
an identifier that doesn't appear in the patch :-)

Will update.

Thanks

-Tony