On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 02:00:46 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > A synchronous machine check is an exception raised by the attempt to > execute the current instruction. If the error can't be corrected, it > can make sense to SIGBUS the currently running process. > > In other cases, the error condition is not related to the current > instruction, so killing the current process is not the right thing to > do. > > Today, all machine checks are MCE_SEV_ERROR_SYNC, so this has no > practical change. It will be used to handle POWER9 asynchronous > machine checks. > > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Series applied to powerpc fixes, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1363875bdb6317a2d0798284d7aaf3 cheers
