Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

[Raj, Ashok]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 12:56:11AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Oh, and it's not like the user can do anything - there's a thermald
> which is supposed to deal with all that. Which is not really
> trouble-free too, TBH. What happens if that thing dies? Fried CPU?
> 
> So I say we should rip out that mce_log_therm_throt_event() and never
> ever handle thermal events with MCEs. It is a bad idea.

Agree, since we have both a log and another agent to deal with it, it makes
no good reason to continue... Will pass this along, and have someone look at
cleaning this up.


Cheers,
Ashok