Re: 答复: 答复: 答复: [外部邮件] Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Fix timer interval adjustment after logging a MCE event

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 06:53:13PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Once upon a time the polling interval started out at 5 minutes, but the
> interval was halved each time an error was found (so interval went
> 150s, 75s, 37s, ... down to 1s). If no error was found, then the interval
> was doubled (going back up to 300s).
> 
> This is described in the comment:
> 
>         /*
>          * Alert userspace if needed. If we logged an MCE, reduce the polling
>          * interval, otherwise increase the polling interval.
>          */
> 
> It seems that the kernel isn't doing that today.

So the halving is not happening anymore because mce_notify_irq() is not
returning true.

I guess we botched that somewhere along the way...

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    Boris.

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