linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] acpi: apei: Drop panic() on fatal errors policy

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Date:   Sun, 27 May 2018 11:36:49 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
Cc:     ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        alex_gagniuc@...lteam.com, austin_bolen@...l.com,
        shyam_iyer@...l.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@...el.com>,
        Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@...eaurora.org>,
        Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>,
        "open list:EDAC-CORE" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        devel@...ica.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] acpi: apei: Drop panic() on fatal errors policy

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com> wrote:
> FFS (firmware-first) handling through APEI seems to have developed a
> policy to panic() on any fatal errors. This policy is completely
> independent of the non-FFS case. It is also inconsistent with how the
> native error handlers, a number of which will recover the system from
> fatal errors.
>
> The purpose of this series is to obsolete this idiotic policy, with
> the motivation to enable identical handling of PCIe errors to native
> reporting.
>
>
> Rafael, this is copypaste from the previous patch series. I suspect
> you might have missed it last time, because you asked questions which
> were answered here. I've included it so you don't have to go digging
> old emails:

I didn't miss it, but I didn't like your answers.

Anyway, as a rule, no GHES/APEI patches are applied without an ACK
from either Boris or Tony, so you need to talk to them about the
patches.

Thanks,
Rafael