From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:27:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20130621072725.GB22006@pd.tnic> References: <20130619180441.GK28300@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F2DA88106@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> <20130619183640.GL28300@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F2DA881C2@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> <20130619201438.GM28300@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F2DA8838B@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> <20130619210706.GP28300@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F2DA884F0@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> <51C37251.4000008@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F2DA8993C@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:56507 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751644Ab3FUH1f (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:27:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F2DA8993C@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" , "ananth@in.ibm.com" , "masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "Huang, Ying" , Robert Richter On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:11:27PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > - Two, the Generic Error Data Entry (aka UEFI Section Descriptor) has a > > flag which indicates 'Error Threshold Exceeded'. From the UEFI spec, it > > looks like we could consider this as an indication to offline the page; > > though I am not sure if/how this relates to the threshold value above. > > This one sounds to make sense ... the flag description sounds exactly what > we want - I won't feel embarrassed explaining to people why Linux takes > action when it sees a record like this. Yep, and firmware can set that flag when it wants to, so decision when to offline a page is left to the platform. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --