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spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 21 Jul 2017 15:08:41.9952 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 105b2061-b669-4b31-92ac-24d304d195dc X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: DF4PR84MB0185 X-OriginatorOrg: hpe.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id v6LFBRRj020571 Content-Length: 797 Lines: 21 On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 15:47 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:40:01AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > wrote: > > What happens when the error can be corrected? Does it still report > > it to userspace, or just silently hide the error? > > > > If I remember well about a past discussion with some vendor, I was > > told that the firmware can hide some errors from being reported. Is > > it still the case? > > I've heard the same thing but I have no idea what they're actually > doing. But it would make sense because the intention is not to worry > users unnecessarily if it can hide the error and if there are no > adverse consequences from it. Yes, that is correct. Corrected errors are reported to the OS when they exceeded the platform's threshold. Thanks, -Toshi