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Date:   Fri, 11 May 2018 19:41:12 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     "Alex G." <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 3/3] acpi: apei: Do not panic() on PCIe errors
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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:01:52PM -0500, Alex G. wrote:
> I understand your concern with unhandled AER errors evolving into MCE's.
> That's extremely rare, but when it happens you still panic due to the
> MCE.

I don't like leaving holes in the handling of PCIe errors. You need to
handle only those errors which are caused by hot-removal and not affect
other error types. Or do a comprehensive PCIe errors handling of all
errors in the AER driver.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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