Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] x86, mce, severities: Define mce_severity function pointer

[Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>]

On 3/21/2015 1:10 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:35:26PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>> Other function pointers in the mce code like unexpected_machine_check
>> and default_threshold_interrupt are assigned to the respective
>> function pointers when they are defined.
> The "WTF?!" would still fire and we don't want that.

Ah. Ok, I misunderstood. Will clear this.

> Also, I'm not sure about returning MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY by default.
> I mean, the code for !(Intel || AMD) has worked just fine with the
> original severities, i.e., mce_severity_intel() now.
>
> So maybe we should assign mce_severity_intel() on static init of the
> mce_severity pointer and override it only on AMD...
>
> This keeps the old behaviour for other machines, in the manner of
> letting sleeping dogs lie...
>

Ok, I'll do that and resend.

Thanks,
-Aravind.