RE: [PATCH] x86/MCE: Remove MCP_TIMESTAMP

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Nov 07 2016 - 13:37:58 EST


> One other possibility would be to use ->time and write ->tsc *only*
> when exact - i.e., in the handler - and this is then enough info about
> timing.
>
> ->time will give you somewhere around where it happened and ->tsc - only
> if set - will give you exact, well, *timestamp* :)
>
> This sounds like a pretty straightforward logic to me...

Also to me ... and I think that's what used to happen (or at least was the
intent).

-Tony