[PATCH RESEND v5] vmcoreinfo: Track and log recoverable hardware errors

[Breno Leitao]

Hello Andrew, Borislav, Tony,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:36:50AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> Introduce a generic infrastructure for tracking recoverable hardware
> errors (HW errors that are visible to the OS but does not cause a panic)
> and record them for vmcore consumption. This aids post-mortem crash
> analysis tools by preserving a count and timestamp for the last
> occurrence of such errors. On the other side, correctable errors, which
> the OS typically remains unaware of because the underlying hardware
> handles them transparently, are less relevant for crash dump
> and therefore are NOT tracked in this infrastructure.

<snip>

> Suggested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai at linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
> Reviewed-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai at linux.alibaba.com>

Do you know what is the right tree for this patch?

I am wondering if it should go through Kdump, x86 or RAS/MCE tree?

Thanks
--breno