Re: [PATCH 07/14] mce3: pass mce info to EDAC for decoding

Borislav Petkov
2009-07-21T12:56:12Z

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:04:58PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > It would be probably cleaner if you defined a standard
> > > notifier chain interface.
> >
> > Sounds like a cleaner solution, at a first glance. Will look into it.
>
> Actually on second though a notifier chain is a bad idea
> because there is too much risk having bad modules mess
> up machine check handling. It's a critical path like
> oops handling.

Which even stronger advocates placing MCE decoding into the EDAC core,
as Doug suggested. The DRAM address to DIMM mapping could still stay in
the module, being not critical path and all.

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