RE: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint

[Luck, Tony]

> IMHO, before removing those fields, it would be better to first implement
> what is there at the mcelog userspace parser for the Intel machines into
> kernelspace (or to look into its source code), and check what registers
> aren't used by either AMD 64 MCE decoder or by the Intel MCE decoder.
>
> Tony,
>
> Is there anyone at Intel working on porting it to kernelspace?

The mcelog code just looks at model specific fields in MCi_STATUS
and MCi_MISC.  We could move it to the kernel - but I don't see
much value in doing so.  In this case all the information we need
is carried in status/misc - so as long as we keep all of those
bits (and the cpu family/model) we can safely decode/analyze later.

-Tony
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