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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 05/12] powerpc/book3s: Introduce a early machine
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:01:56AM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch adds the early machine check function pointer in cputable for
> CPU specific early machine check handling. The early machine handle routine
> will be called in real mode to handle SLB and TLB errors. This patch just
> sets up a mechanism invoke CPU specific handler. The subsequent patches
> will populate the function pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Your patch description should talk about how this new hook is
different from the existing machine_check hook and why you need a new
one.

Apart from that:

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>