From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] HWPOISON: clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure()
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:44:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215064444.GA14237@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0207C53569FE594381A4F2EB66570B2A019147EF6A@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com>
* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > printk(KERN_ERR "Action optional memory failure at %lx ignored\n", pfn);
> > >
> > > Btw., while at it, could we phrase this message in a more
> > > obvious way to users, such as 'Non-fatal memory failure at
> > > %lx ignored'?
> >
> > Yeah, that's might not be as correct as we want it to be. AO
> > means it is an uncorrectable error, i.e. it will become fatal
> > if we'd consumed it, but it isn't that now because we just saw
> > it passing by in the cacheline...
> >
> > Maybe "Fatal, unconsumed error ignored..."
>
> The overall meaning is "land mine seen but not stepped on yet"
Perfect message!
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-13 19:05 [PATCH 0/6] x86, mce: machine check recovery for applications Tony Luck
2011-12-08 22:49 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86, mce: Recognise machine check bank signature for data path error Tony Luck
2011-12-14 15:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-12-12 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86, mce: Add mechanism to safely save information in MCE handler Tony Luck
2011-12-14 7:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-12 21:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, mce: handle "action required" errors Tony Luck
2011-12-14 9:28 ` Chen Gong
2011-12-14 21:30 ` Tony Luck
2011-12-15 2:56 ` Chen Gong
2011-12-14 16:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-12-14 19:05 ` Luck, Tony
2011-12-13 17:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] HWPOISON: clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() Tony Luck
2011-12-14 7:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-14 16:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-12-14 16:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-14 17:21 ` Luck, Tony
2011-12-15 6:44 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-12-15 18:05 ` Tony Luck
2011-12-15 18:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-13 17:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] HWPOISON: Add code to handle "action required" errors Tony Luck
2011-12-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, mce: create helper function to save addr/misc when needed Tony Luck
2011-12-16 0:13 ` Hidetoshi Seto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-15 19:59 [PATCH 0/6] x86, mce: machine check recovery for applications [updated] Tony Luck
2011-12-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] HWPOISON: clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() Tony Luck
2011-12-16 8:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-01-03 19:49 [PATCH 0/6] x86, mce: machine check recovery for applications Tony Luck
2011-12-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure() Tony Luck
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