Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:06:04 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] x86/mce: Take action on UCNA/Deferred errors again |
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:45:33AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > That's a tricky question. We have changing behavior (UCNA pages offlined, > then a few kernel versions stopped doing this, now we are going to start > doing it again. But is it really a _BUG_ that needs backporting to stable? > I'm leaning towards "no it isn't".
I think the same, so let's not. We can always backport it later, if it turns out that it is needed.
> But could perhaps be convinced to change my mind if somebody has a > good reason for wanting it there.
Yah.
> Is there something to put in the tags to stop this being autoselected > for backport because it has a Fixes: tag?
I don't think so.
What we could do is write the "Fixes:" tag in free text in the commit message so that tools don't pick up on it.
I'll reply to the other thing below in a separate mail.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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