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mm/memory-failure.c: replace "MCE" with "Memory failure"
authorChen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 23:57:32 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 May 2016 00:58:30 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
commit65497b8ca7021ca439381f90f83b104b4c17b37e
tree9391eaae7ab1e0b21510d001d9aa37f2d2376d6d
parentbbc529d00e1ba5a5c7847f7baada0f2ce0201c42
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 165f7e6f97cb ("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>
mm/memory-failure.c