linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Correct AER severity for printing AER information

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Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:45:31 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, lenb@...nel.org, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        matt.fleming@...el.com, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
        zjzhang@...eaurora.org, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, axboe@...com,
        izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Correct AER severity for printing AER information

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:57:23PM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote:
> AER severity handling has two issues that cause the AER information to
> be printed incorrectly. The first issue is that the function to calculate
> the AER severity is called twice in the code path to print the AER
> information. The second issue is that the original call to calculate the
> AER severity expects the CPER severity but is recieving the GHES
> severity.
> 
> Tyler Baicar (2):
>   PCI/AER: Remove duplicate AER severity translation
>   acpi: apei: send correct severity to calculate AER severity
> 
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c               | 2 +-
>  drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_errprint.c | 6 ++----
>  include/linux/aer.h                    | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

For both:

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

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