Re: [PATCH] [0/28] x86: MCE: Feature series for 2.6.31

From: Hidetoshi Seto
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 07:25:44 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
> Various new Intel x86 machine check features, including initial support
> for machine check recovery and new status bits. The actual machine check
> recovery requires some generic VM changes, which will be posted in a separate
> series ("POISON series") This series can be applied without the POISON
> series and POISON requires these patches.
>
> Especially the broadcast and early nowayout patches are fairly important for
> Nehalem CPUs, without them machine checks are often incorrectly reported
> due to the shared bank topology of the system.
>
> -Andi

Andi, could you divide this series into "cleanups" and "features"?
Or May I help you?


Thanks,
H.Seto


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