Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ffmode for corrected errors

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 06/21/2013 12:57 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:11:27PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > - Two, the Generic Error Data Entry (aka UEFI Section Descriptor) has a
> > > flag which indicates 'Error Threshold Exceeded'. From the UEFI spec, it
> > > looks like we could consider this as an indication to offline the page;
> > > though I am not sure if/how this relates to the threshold value above.
> >
> > This one sounds to make sense ... the flag description sounds exactly what
> > we want - I won't feel embarrassed explaining to people why Linux takes
> > action when it sees a record like this.
>
> Yep, and firmware can set that flag when it wants to, so decision when
> to offline a page is left to the platform.

Ok, I will work towards a patch which does this.

Thanks,
Naveen

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