On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:18:54PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Hey Paul, > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:17:40AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hello! > > > > We are looking at backporting fd258dc4442c ("x86/mce: Add Skylake quirk > > for patrol scrub reported errors") to v5.6. When accompanied by these > > guys, it passes our usual kernel smoke-testing: > > > > 1df73b2131e3 ("x86/mce: Fixup exception only for the correct MCEs") > > 1de08dccd383 ("x86/mce: Add a struct mce.kflags field") > > why do you even need those two? > > fd258dc4442c gives you only an Action Optional severity for that > particular error type and the other two patches are for recovery of > errors in the kernel memory range, i.e., for pmem etc., so should be > unrelated. > > I mean, it depends on what you want to backport, ofc.
Even better, thank you very much! Thanx, Paul