Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Add Skylake quirk for patrol scrub reported errors

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:37:10PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> From: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
> 
> Skylake has a mode where the system administrator can use a BIOS setup
> option to request that the memory controller report uncorrected errors
> found by the patrol scrubber as corrected.  This results in them being
> signalled using CMCI, which is less disruptive than a machine check.
> 
> Add a quirk to detect that a "corrected" error is actually a downgraded
> uncorrected error with model specific checks for the "MSCOD" signature in
> MCi_STATUS and that the error was reported from a memory controller bank.
> 
> Adjust the severity to MCE_AO_SEVERITY so that Linux will try to take
> the affected page offline.
> 
> [Tony: Wordsmith commit comment]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> 
> ---
> Repost ... looks like this got lost somewhere.

Yeah, into

fd258dc4442c ("x86/mce: Add Skylake quirk for patrol scrub reported errors")

:-)

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