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authorChen Yucong2016-05-20 16:57:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700
commit495367c051fb200a42636bdc63be78ca1713a85a (patch)
tree9391eaae7ab1e0b21510d001d9aa37f2d2376d6d /mm/memblock.c
parent340a43bed674a70308f196f2a61ec0b01f8a14d9 (diff)
mm/memory-failure.c: replace "MCE" with "Memory failure"
HWPoison was specific to some particular x86 platforms. And it is often seen as high level machine check handler. And therefore, 'MCE' is used for the format prefix of printk(). However, 'PowerNV' has also used HWPoison for handling memory errors[1], so 'MCE' is no longer suitable to memory_failure.c. Additionally, 'MCE' and 'Memory failure' have different context. The former belongs to exception context and the latter belongs to process context. Furthermore, HWPoison can also be used for off-lining those sub-health pages that do not trigger any machine check exception. This patch aims to replace 'MCE' with a more appropriate prefix. [1] commit 75eb3d9b60c2 ("powerpc/powernv: Get FSP memory errors and plumb into memory poison infrastructure.") Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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