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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Micha Nelissen <micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl>
Cc: Martijn de Gouw <martijn.de.gouw@Prodrive.nl>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: powerpc: Don't silently handle machine checks from userspace
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:13:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1352232787.21833.6@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39F93B8F6D09AC4DA45E2F19603FA69C324F2605@exc02.bk.prodrive.nl> (from micha.nelissen@Prodrive.nl on Tue Nov  6 10:43:19 2012)

On 11/06/2012 10:43:19 AM, Micha Nelissen wrote:
> From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood@freescale.com]
> >> Hmm I guess there is no simple solution then, since the "recover"
> >> function also prints the kernel messages about the machine check
> >> being in kernel mode without having checked whether it really was =20
> in
> >> kernel mode. In the past the user mode check was in between.
> >
> > It shouldn't be that difficult to make it say "in user mode" or "in
> > kernel mode" depending on which it was... or just remove that phrase
> > altogether and let the following output indicate whether it was in
> > kernel mode.
>=20
> Well printing the correct message is only part of it: do "we" want to =20
> pass guarded load errors (RapidIO bus errors) to user space or not?

Yes.

> And if we pass them, should we print a kernel message at all?

Yes (but maybe ratelimited).

-Scott=

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-06 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-02 11:48 powerpc: Don't silently handle machine checks from userspace Martijn de Gouw
2012-11-02 16:36 ` Scott Wood
2012-11-06  9:21   ` Micha Nelissen
2012-11-06 16:34     ` Scott Wood
2012-11-06 16:43       ` Micha Nelissen
2012-11-06 20:13         ` Scott Wood [this message]

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