[PATCH] powerpc/book3s: Fix MCE console messages for unrecoverable MCE.

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Aug 4 19:53:43 AEST 2016


Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On 08/04/2016 01:35 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:16:48AM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
>>> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> When machine check occurs with MSR(RI=0), it means MC interrupt is
>>> unrecoverable and kernel goes down to panic path. But the console
>>> message still shows it as recovered. This patch fixes the MCE console
>>> messages.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
>> <formletter>
>> 
>> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
>> stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
>> for how to do this properly.
>> 
>> </formletter>
>
> Ouch. My mistake. Will follow Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Additionally I appreciate it if you can add a Fixes: line. Which
indicates the commit that introduced the bug you are fixing. It is
documented in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

In this case it looks like it would be:

Fixes: 36df96f8acaf ("powerpc/book3s: Decode and save machine check event.")

cheers


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