Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:13:55 +0530 | From | "Naveen N. Rao" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors |
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On 06/21/2013 12:57 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:11:27PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: >>> - Two, the Generic Error Data Entry (aka UEFI Section Descriptor) has a >>> flag which indicates 'Error Threshold Exceeded'. From the UEFI spec, it >>> looks like we could consider this as an indication to offline the page; >>> though I am not sure if/how this relates to the threshold value above. >> >> This one sounds to make sense ... the flag description sounds exactly what >> we want - I won't feel embarrassed explaining to people why Linux takes >> action when it sees a record like this. > > Yep, and firmware can set that flag when it wants to, so decision when > to offline a page is left to the platform. >
Ok, I will work towards a patch which does this.
Thanks, Naveen
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