Bug#810964: #810964 is more kernel driver than Xen

From	Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#810964: #810964 is more kernel driver than Xen
Date	2023-10-03 07:20 +0200
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Hi Elliott,

On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 10:18:49AM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> 
> reassign 810964 src:linux
> tags 810964 -moreinfo
> affects 810964 src:xen
> found 810964 5.10.191-1
> found 810964 6.1.52-1
> found 810964 6.5.3-1
> found 810964 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1
> found 810964 6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
> found 810964 6.4.4-3~bpo12+1
> quit
> 
> Upon further investigation, while some part of #810964 may be in Xen,
> the biggest issue is in the Linux kernel.
> 
> Appears MCE/EDAC support for Xen was implemented around 2008-2012.  Since
> that time the maintainer has changed and the new maintainer was unaware
> the driver was supposed to function on Xen.
> 
> As such the current maintainer has been adding in constructs which are
> incompatible with operation on Xen, and at 767f4b620eda overtly broke Xen
> support.
> 
> Part of the fix may require adjustments to Xen, but right now the
> immediate source of breakage is the Linux kernel.
> 
> As such I'm reassigning this to src:linux.

Can you report you findings upstream with the EDAC and xen subsystem
maintainers and keep this bug in the loop?

Regards,
Salvatore

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Bug#810964: #810964 is more kernel driver than Xen Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2023-10-03 07:20 +0200
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