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From: Frank van der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Small fix for CMCI/Poll conditions
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:55:46 -0600
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Ke, Liping wrote:
> Hi, Frank& Keir
> 
> This is a small fix for solving CMCI and polling race conditions.
> We found when CMCI happens very quickly, polling/CMCI processing path might cross. It's not graceful.
> So for latest Intel CPU which support CMCI, if the error bank has CMCI capability (not every bank has this support
> even if CPU supports CMCI), we will not poll it. Otherwise, we keep polling mechanism.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> Regards,
> Criping

This patch looks good to me.

Thanks,

- Frank