linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/nmi, EDAC: Get rid of DRAM error reporting thru PCI SERR NMI

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Message-ID: <20170410145909.xshjxauoummaohbd@pd.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:59:09 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/nmi, EDAC: Get rid of DRAM error reporting
 thru PCI SERR NMI

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:39:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Notifiers? You mean a proper NMI handler, right?

I mean notifiers in the sense, the NMI handler should queue the logged
error on the decoding chain x86_mce_decoder_chain like the rest of RAS
code does instead of calling straight into EDAC which can be a module
and which causes all this ugliness I'm removing now :-)

> Other than that: Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Thanks!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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