linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH V2 2/4] x86/mce, PCI: Provide quirks to identify Xeon models with machine check recovery

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Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2016 16:34:49 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Boris Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 2/4] x86/mce, PCI: Provide quirks to identify Xeon
 models with machine check recovery

> What are we doing with the recovery bool? You want to keep the cmdline
> switch: mce=recovery?

I want to keep if for new systems ... there will be a lag between me getting them, and adding new quirks.

> Btw, it needs documenting over mcheck_enable().

Yes - should have been done before. Will spin new version.

-Tony