RE: [PATCH] x86, MCE: Flesh out when to panic comment

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue May 27 2014 - 17:54:04 EST


>> I think the comment is still not explaining the big part of what the
>> discussion was about -- i.e. if it was in kernel context, we always
>> panic.
>
> I thought the pointer to mce_severity was enough? People should open an
> editor and look at the function and at its gory insanity. :-P

It is far from obvious that mce_severity() will always say that an error
detected inside the kernel will be fatal.

-Tony