Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error output format

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On 10/19/2013 04:56 PM, Chen Gong wrote:
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
  output format
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101
  Thunderbird/24.0

[...]

@@ -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.


Sure, but we don't recover in all scenarios. So, calling it corrected seems incorrect to me.



- Naveen

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