Re: [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD: Always give PANIC severity for UC errors in kernel context

[Borislav Petkov]

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:07:11AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Our current AMD severity logic can possibly give MCE_AR_SEVERITY for
> uncorrectable errors in kernel context. The current #MC handler only calls
> memory_failure() on errors in user context, but older versions will call
> memory_failure() unconditionally.

Err, I don't understand this aspect: what does "older versions" mean
here exactly?

There are no older versions of the #MC handler - there's only one
version - the version against which this patch gets applied.

Hmmm?

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