Re: [PATCH] memory failure: replace 'MCE' with 'Memory failure'

[Naoya Horiguchi]

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@xxxxxxxxx>

Fair enough, thank you.

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>