linux-kernel - RE: [RFC] #MC mess

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Message-ID: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F7F57BD54@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:54:54 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] #MC mess

>> How about some code to turn all those back on for a recoverable (where
>> we actually recovered) #MC?
>
> The use case being?

Recoverable machine checks are a normal (hopefully rare) event on a server.  But you wouldn't
want to lose tracing capability just because we took a page offline and killed a process to recover.

-Tony