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authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2011-04-18 18:00:21 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-19 21:14:13 +0400
commit7b70bd3441437b7bc04fc9d321e17c8ed0e8f958 (patch)
tree4fc610ccefebf7688adc9b71029fbd36390a6c35 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
parentf0e615c3cb72b42191b558c130409335812621d8 (diff)
downloadlinux-7b70bd3441437b7bc04fc9d321e17c8ed0e8f958.tar.xz
x86, MCE: Do not taint when handling correctable errors
Correctable errors are considered something rather normal on modern hardware these days. Even more importantly, correctable errors mean exactly that - they've been corrected by the hardware - and there's no need to taint the kernel since execution hasn't been compromised so far. Also, drop tainting in the thermal throttling code for a similar reason: crossing a thermal threshold does not mean corruption. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Nagananda Chumbalkar <Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303135222-17118-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
index 6f8c5e9da97f..5846a797b970 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
@@ -187,8 +187,6 @@ static int therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
this_cpu,
level == CORE_LEVEL ? "Core" : "Package",
state->count);
-
- add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK);
return 1;
}
if (old_event) {
@@ -393,7 +391,6 @@ static void unexpected_thermal_interrupt(void)
{
printk(KERN_ERR "CPU%d: Unexpected LVT thermal interrupt!\n",
smp_processor_id());
- add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK);
}
static void (*smp_thermal_vector)(void) = unexpected_thermal_interrupt;