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From: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Geoffrey Lee <glee@gnupilgrims.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] reproducible athlon mce fix
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:25:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031102182556.GA4974@dreamland.darkstar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031102055748.GA1218@anakin.wychk.org>

Geoffrey Lee ha scritto:
> After switching from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test9, I have received reproducible
> MCE non-fatal error check messages in my kernel log.  (For example, one
> shows up right after my first scsi card init).
[cut]
> would seem to imply that Athlons don't like having their Bank 0 poked at,
> though that's what non-fatal.c does.  Would it be correct to make sure
> that that non-fatal.c starts at bank 1, if it is an Athlon?
>
> --- linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c.orig	2003-11-02 13:31:43.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c	2003-11-02 13:34:37.000000000 +0800
> @@ -30,7 +30,11 @@
>  	int i;
> 
> 	preempt_disable(); 
> +#if CONFIG_MK7
> +	for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
> +#else
>  	for (i=0; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
> +#endif
>  		rdmsr (MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS+i*4, low, high);
> 
>  		if (high & (1<<31)) {

In  this way  you don't  read  from bank  0. The strange  thing is  that
amd_mcheck_init doesn't enable reporting on  this bank... it should stay
clean. What's going on here?

Luca
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-02 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-02  5:57 [patch] reproducible athlon mce fix Geoffrey Lee
2003-11-02  7:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-11-02  7:28   ` Geoffrey Lee
2003-11-02  8:59   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-10 23:55   ` bill davidsen
2003-11-02 12:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-11-02 13:52   ` Geoffrey Lee
2003-11-03  9:20   ` Geoffrey Lee
2003-11-03 13:24     ` Dave Jones
2003-11-02 18:25 ` Kronos [this message]
2003-11-02 23:44   ` Geoffrey Lee

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