Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:08:17 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, mce: reset kernel for no-match exception errors |
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Jin Dongming wrote: > The last case of severity table is used for no match exception error. > Maybe such kind of error could not happen. But I think when the error > really happened, the kernel should be reset. Because such error is > unknown and unexpected. So I make this patch for fixing this problem.
I don't think panicing for a non-signalled error is the correct action.
In general I tried to be conservative regarding panics, this seems to be too liberal with them.
-Andi
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