Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] x86/mce: Collect error message for severities below MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Feb 18 2025 - 02:59:39 EST


On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 02:33:31PM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:
> Currently, mce_no_way_out() only collects error messages when the error
> severity is equal to `MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY`. To improve diagnostics,
> modify the behavior to also collect error messages when the severity is
> less than `MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY`.

That function is literally called "no way out" as in, is the error severe
enough so that there is no way out.

Now you went and stomped all over that to "improve diagnostics". What
diagnostsics? Your commit messages need to explain in detail why exactly
a patch exists.

So nope.

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