From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "H.Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, mce: reset kernel for no-match exception errors
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:08:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A964D01.4090608@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9646A2.6080605@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Jin Dongming wrote:
> The last case of severity table is used for no match exception error.
> Maybe such kind of error could not happen. But I think when the error
> really happened, the kernel should be reset. Because such error is
> unknown and unexpected. So I make this patch for fixing this problem.
I don't think panicing for a non-signalled error is the correct action.
In general I tried to be conservative regarding panics, this seems
to be too liberal with them.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 8:41 [PATCH] x86, mce: reset kernel for no-match exception errors Jin Dongming
2009-08-27 9:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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