Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:27:25 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | 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 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.
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