Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 05/12] powerpc/book3s: Introduce a early machine check hook in cpu_spec.

From: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 15:33:50 +1000

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:01:56AM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <[email-masked]>
> 
> This patch adds the early machine check function pointer in cputable for
> CPU specific early machine check handling. The early machine handle routine
> will be called in real mode to handle SLB and TLB errors. This patch just
> sets up a mechanism invoke CPU specific handler. The subsequent patches
> will populate the function pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <[email-masked]>

Your patch description should talk about how this new hook is
different from the existing machine_check hook and why you need a new
one.

Apart from that:

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>