From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756823Ab1DLUPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:15:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23399 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755739Ab1DLUPw (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:15:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4DA4B2EA.5050303@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:15:38 -0400 From: Prarit Bhargava User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100505 Fedora/3.0.4-2.el6 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luck, Tony" CC: Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "dzickus@redhat.com" , "mstowe@redhat.com" , "dnelson@redhat.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH]: mce: don't print "human readable" message for corrected errors References: <20110412174405.26867.65604.sendpatchset@prarit.bos.redhat.com> <20110412185842.GB9891@liondog.tnic> <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D5301A9629BD5@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <987664A83D2D224EAE907B061CE93D5301A9629BD5@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > We are also setting TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK for corrected errors - perhaps > this made sense when systems were small and machine checks were rare and > scary. But I think we need to start working with the reality that > corrected errors are normal events. > > It still makes sense for small lt 1TB systems, IMO. But ... maybe a flag of some sort is necessary to stop the TAINTing for systems larger than that. The CEs may point to something going wrong on a system. CEs in theory become UCEs eventually, right? >>From a OS point of view, we would like to know that there is flaky HW on the system. /me knows this is going to turn into a PFA discussion in 4 ... 3 ... 2 .... ;) P. > -Tony >