Re: [PATCH v2] Dump cper error table in mce_panic

Aili Yao
2021-02-24T09:58:22Z

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:32:37 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> > I am not smart enough to get the point. I have paid a lot of time for this patch,
> > I need an result even it doesn't work. so i like the reply like this:
> >
> > 1. this patch is meaningless, and should be rejected.
> > 2. this issue is real, but we need other methond, not this patch.
> > 3. the patch need to improve.
>
> I don't want to say that the patch is meaningless ... it may be useful to you
> in your environment to help sort out machine checks due to h/w issues vs.
> programming errors in the machine check recovery code.
>
> But I don't think it is generally useful in the upstream code.

Got it.
Another thing I want to say is that when mca_cfg.tolerant is set to 3, this NMI handling will
also panic the system in some case, but it seems there is not a big influence though.

Thanks
Aili Yao