Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:19:16 +0200 | | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/6] x86, NMI, Add symbol definition for NMI magic constants | | From | "Andi Kleen" <> |
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> > I guess adding either another knob to override the hardware error option > or tying it in with the panic_on_unknown_error option might make me more > comfortable. That way enterprise customers can always just enable it by > default and desktop users (for now) could have it off.
Anything that needs explicit enabling is a bad idea, that would lead to a lot of users running in "corrupt my data" mode.
The code currently uses the presence of a HEST error table to detect a server. HEST should be only available on servers.
On servers at least panic should be default.
-Andi
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