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authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2011-04-18 16:00:21 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-19 19:14:13 +0200
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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>
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