> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Borislav Petkov > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 2:57 AM > To: Ghannam, Yazen <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] x86/MCE: Add function to allow filtering of MCA > errors > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 04:34:22PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote: > > From: Yazen Ghannam <[email protected]> > > > > Some systems may report spurious MCA errors. In general, spurious MCA > > errors may be disabled by clearing a particular bit in MCA_CTL. However, > > clearing a bit in MCA_CTL may not be recommended for some errors, so the > > only option is to ignore them. > > > > An MCA error is printed and handled after it has been added to the MCE > > event pool. So an MCA error can be ignored by not adding it to the pool. > > > > Define a default function that does not filter any errors. > > > > Check if an MCA error should be filtered out when adding it to the MCE > > event pool. > > > > Cc: <[email protected]> # 5.0.x > > The old version of the patches had 4.14.x here as a kernel version. Why > change? >
They don't apply cleanly to v4.14 anymore because of the recent header change. I figured they would need to be fixed up and submitted separately to older stable versions. Is that okay? Thanks, Yazen
