From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "ananth@in.ibm.com" <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
"masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
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 22:13:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C482CB.9040700@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130621072725.GB22006@pd.tnic>
On 06/21/2013 12:57 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok, I will work towards a patch which does this.
Thanks,
Naveen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 17:57 [PATCH v2 1/2] mce: acpi/apei: Honour Firmware First for MCA banks listed in APEI HEST CMC Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-19 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-19 18:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 18:17 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-19 18:19 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-19 18:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 19:05 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-19 20:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 20:33 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-19 21:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 21:28 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-19 21:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 22:08 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-20 5:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 21:21 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-20 22:11 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-21 7:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 16:43 ` Naveen N. Rao [this message]
2013-06-28 12:04 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-28 17:31 ` Tony Luck
2013-07-01 15:07 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-07-01 15:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-01 15:41 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-20 7:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 19:02 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-20 7:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mce: acpi/apei: Honour Firmware First for MCA banks listed in APEI HEST CMC Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 19:08 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-20 19:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 20:14 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-20 20:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 21:22 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-21 7:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 7:46 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-21 8:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 9:32 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-21 14:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 16:47 ` Tony Luck
2013-06-21 17:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-25 17:46 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-06-25 17:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-25 17:55 ` Luck, Tony
2013-06-25 18:28 ` Naveen N. Rao
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