From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [Patch] MCE, APEI: Don't enable CMCI when Firmware First mode is set in HEST for corrected machine checks Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 23:55:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20130507215513.GG7633@pd.tnic> References: <1367881102.4518.68.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> <20130506232537.GF22041@pd.tnic> <1367897566.4518.83.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> <20130507131946.GC7633@pd.tnic> <1367941214.4518.90.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1F3FF565@fmsmsx152.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:33153 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752402Ab3EGVyC (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 17:54:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1F3FF565@fmsmsx152.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "Huang, Ying" , "naveen.n.rao@in.ibm.com" , "ananth@in.ibm.com" , "lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com" On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:34:28PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > What happens when you succeed and turn off CMCI? Will Linux > still poll the machine check banks looking for corrected errors? Of course - there's the mce_timer. Which begs the question: is FF going to take over *all* correctable MCEs or only a subset? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --