Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757222Ab1E0SBk (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 14:01:40 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:54568 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757137Ab1E0SBg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 14:01:36 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andi Kleen , "Luck\, Tony" , Vivek Goyal , kexec@lists.infradead.org, anderson@redhat.com References: <20110526170722.GB23266@in.ibm.com> <20110526171251.GB17988@in.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:01:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20110526171251.GB17988@in.ibm.com> (K. Prasad's message of "Thu, 26 May 2011 22:42:51 +0530") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+QRli34SuuokokMmcdZD8MWyur7akgeBo= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 1.5 XMNoVowels Alpha-numberic number with no vowels * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa02 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.4 UNTRUSTED_Relay Comes from a non-trusted relay X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa02 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [Patch 2/6] x86: mce: Convert mce code to xpanic X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:31:04 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 28 "K.Prasad" writes: > commit aea29c4a9324f24b5c61e7c3919a8137a53be935 > Author: Andi Kleen > Date: Fri Nov 19 18:42:02 2010 +0100 > > x86: mce: Convert mce code to xpanic > > - Pass in the panic timeout directly instead of > abusing global variable. > - Disable backtraces and kexecs on machine check panics > because they don't do anything useful. Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Kexec on panic does not fact do something useful, and usable today. The mce_panic_timeout looks like a horrible hack that should be killed. Why do we think we know better than the sysadmin that sets up the system. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/