RE: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Set PG_hwpoison page flag to avoid the capture kernel panic

[Luck, Tony]

> Tony, your commit message made me realize how verbose my commit message
> is. May I simplify the whole commit message as following for next version?
>
> ---start---
> Memory errors don't happen very often, especially the severity is fatal.
>  However, in large-scale scenarios, such as data centers, it might still
> happen.  When there is a fatal machine check Linux calls mce_panic()
> without checking to see if bad data at some memory address
> was reported in the machine check banks.
>
> If kexec is enabled, check for memory errors and mark the page as
> poisoned so that the kexec'ed kernel can avoid accessing the page.
> ---end---
>
> It already covers the scenario, root cause and solution, and focuses on
> kernel.  No need to talk something else.

Yes, you can use that. Being concise (but keeping the important details)
is the art of a good commit message.

-Tony