Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:13:19 +0900 | From | Naoya Horiguchi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] memory failure: replace 'MCE' with 'Memory failure' |
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:41:15PM +0800, Chen Yucong wrote: > HWPoison was specific to some particular x86 platforms. > And it is often seen as high level machine check handler. > And therefore, 'MCE' is used for the format prefix of > printk(). However, 'PowerNV' has also used HWPoison for > handling memory errors[1], so 'MCE' is no longer suitable > to memory_failure.c. > > Additionally, 'MCE' and 'Memory failure' have different > context. The former belongs to exception context and the > latter belongs to process context. Furthermore, HWPoison > can also be used for off-lining those sub-health pages > that do not trigger any machine check exception. > > This patch aims to replace 'MCE' with a more appropriate prefix. > > [1] commit 75eb3d9b60c2 ("powerpc/powernv: Get FSP memory errors > and plumb into memory poison infrastructure.") > > Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Fair enough, thank you.
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
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