Re: 2.6.0-test4 and hardware reports a non fatal incident

From: Dave Jones (davej_at_redhat.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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To: Matt Gibson <gothick@gothick.org.uk>

    On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:44:56PM +0100, Matt Gibson wrote:
    > > for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
    > >
    > > Check out the "for". Or am I reading this wrong?
    >
    > Having checked back, this was changed between test-2 and test-3. The
    > checking code in k7_machine_check() still loops from 0 rather than 1. I
    > think this may be leading to false reporting of problems, which may be why I
    > and Tomasz are seeing these MCE messages on our Athlons.

    When it was i=0 people were seeing false positives. Starting from 1
    reduces that.

    > Anyone who knows more about this stuff care to comment? Is someone looking
    > after MCE at the moment? I couldn't find out much info on it.

    in the past, Alan and myself took care of i386, Andi Kleen did AMD64.

                    Dave 

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 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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