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Re: [PATCH] memory failure: replace 'MCE' with 'Memory failure'

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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:41:15PM +0800, Chen Yucong wrote:
> HWPoison was specific to some particular x86 platforms.
> And it is often seen as high level machine check handler.
> And therefore, 'MCE' is used for the format prefix of
> printk(). However, 'PowerNV' has also used HWPoison for
> handling memory errors[1], so 'MCE' is no longer suitable
> to memory_failure.c.
> 
> Additionally, 'MCE' and 'Memory failure' have different
> context. The former belongs to exception context and the
> latter belongs to process context. Furthermore, HWPoison
> can also be used for off-lining those sub-health pages
> that do not trigger any machine check exception.
> 
> This patch aims to replace 'MCE' with a more appropriate prefix.
> 
> [1] commit 75eb3d9b60c2 ("powerpc/powernv: Get FSP memory errors
> and plumb into memory poison infrastructure.")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>

Fair enough, thank you.

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

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[PATCH] memory failure: replace 'MCE' with 'Memory failure' Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 15:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] memory failure: replace 'MCE' with 'Memory failure' Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> - 2016-04-12 01:20 +0200

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