From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Fix initialization error warning
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:06:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <587D43CA.5020609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170116215612.f22reezt77nydsp5@pd.tnic>
On 01/16/2017 04:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:49:41PM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> When booting kernel with mce=off a loud warning from the mce code
>> is displayed. This causes confusion for end users.
>
> Is this what you call a loud warning?
>
> [ 1.885648] mce: Unable to init device /dev/mcelog (rc: -5)
Yes, it was loud enough to generate a bug report from a user.
FWIW, I just found this from last year calling the same message "scary". It
doesn't look like there was a follow up though.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/9/354
P.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-16 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 21:49 [PATCH] x86/mce: Fix initialization error warning Prarit Bhargava
2017-01-16 21:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-16 21:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-16 22:06 ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2017-01-16 22:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-16 23:13 ` Prarit Bhargava
2017-01-16 23:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-16 23:50 ` Prarit Bhargava
2017-01-17 8:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-17 9:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-17 9:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
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