WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] small mca cleanup

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] small mca cleanup
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:28:33 +0100
Delivery-date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:29:15 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200708161714.37666.Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AcfgGhr+WbyW5EwNEdymygAX8io7RQ==
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] small mca cleanup
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214
Oh yeah, sure: Xen-specific stuff and the general MCE/MCA reworking that
you're talking about are one thing. But there's no point in minor fixes and
stylistic cleanups going into Xen and bypassing upstream Linux.

 -- Keir

On 16/8/07 16:14, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 16 August 2007 16:42:37 Keir Fraser wrote:
>> The file you modify is from upstream Linux, and that's where this patch
>> belongs.
> 
> oh, I have many changes in my queue in files that are from Linux
> (and also new files, that are not in Linux).
> They do one thing, that does not belong into Linux (or any other OS):
> Notifying guests, preferably Dom0.
> 
> I'm about extracting the least intrusive changes first.
> We can still push changes into Linux that belong to there.
> 
> For more information where this is going to, please see the
> discussion "MCE/MCA concept" on this list. The thread started here:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-05/msg01015.html
> 
> Christoph
> 
>> 
>>  -- Keir
>> 
>> On 16/8/07 15:36, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> The MCG_CAP MSR never returns a negative count of available
>>> error-reporting banks. Thus make nr_mce_banks  unsigned.
>>> 
>>> While here, do some other minor cleanups.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>