Re: [PATCH v4] x86: mce: kexec: switch MCE handler for kexec/kdump

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 05 2015 - 03:49:59 EST


On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:12:33PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > - fixed AR and UC order in enum severity_level because UC is severer than AR
> > by definition. Current code is not affected by this wrong order by chance.
>
> AR and AO are both UC errors - that happen also to be recoverable. Are you really sure
> about this re-order not affecting existing code? You might well be right, but as every one
> else has pointed out mce_severity() is full of odd subtleties that catch people out.

Hallelujah! :-)

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Boris.

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