On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 05:31:21PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:31:21 +0530
> From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx,
> bp@xxxxxxxxx, joe@xxxxxxxxxxx, m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: arozansk@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error
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> >
> >@@ -358,17 +349,21 @@ void cper_estatus_print(const char *pfx,
> > struct acpi_generic_data *gdata;
> > unsigned int data_len, gedata_len;
> > int sec_no = 0;
> >+ char newpfx[64];
> > __u16 severity;
> >
> >- printk("%s""Generic Hardware Error Status\n", pfx);
> > severity = estatus->error_severity;
> >- printk("%s""severity: %d, %s\n", pfx, severity,
> >- cper_severity_str(severity));
> >+ if (severity != CPER_SEV_FATAL)
>
> Shouldn't this just be (severity == CPER_SEV_CORRECTED)?
>
> Thanks,
> Naveen
>
IMO, only fatal error can't be handlered gracefully in current
kernel plus H/W. Once it can be recovered by H/W and OS, we
can call it recovered.
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