linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH] x86/mce: Make mce

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Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:43:24 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] x86/mce: Make mce_rdmsrl() do a plain RDMSR only

> Considering how this situation is supposed to almost never happen and
> how we're actually interested in the first line of the whole splat I
> pasted, how much output comes after it, doesn't really matter. All it
> matters is that the machine stops any further progress (as much as we
> can do that with a panic, ofc).

It would be a "nice to have" ... because all that extra noise pushed the
useful line off the top of the screen. For anyone with a serial console
it’s a non-issue. But since this is a "should never happen" case it isn't
worth creating a complex bunch of infrastructure.

You can slap a:

Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

on it when you push into GIT.

-Tony