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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 12:20:14 -0700
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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 8:52 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
wrote:

> I think "happy" is a strong word when it comes to x86 machine check
> handling. My interpretation is that he and Andy acquiesced that this
> is about the best we can do with dax+mce as things stand today.

Yeah. I definitely wouldn't say "happy", but perhaps "resigned". There's
nothing horrible going on, except for just plain nasty interfaces and
apparently disgusting hw problems wrt "rep movs/stos".

                  Linus