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From: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, MCE, AMD: save IA32_MCi_STATUS before machine_check_poll() resets it
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:37:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412260632.8045.15.camel@cyc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141002131206.GA16452@pd.tnic>

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:12 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Ok, this return is still bugging me - we're logging the error which
> caused the counter overflow but we go and explicitly clear _STATUS so
> that machine_check_poll doesn't pick up the same error again.
> 
> Even though, machine_check_poll is intended to log the thresholding
> error.
> 
> Which actually makes me think that that machine_check_poll is actually
> completely useless there. IOW, how about that instead: 

amd_threshold_interrup() is just used for logging threshold events. And
any 'valid' threshold events can be checked/logged in loop body.
Moreover, machine_check_poll() is unable to check additional MCx_MISCi.
So I agree with you on this change.

Thanks!
cyc 


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-23  2:16 [PATCH] x86, MCE, AMD: use macros to compute bank MSRs Chen Yucong
2014-09-23  8:19 ` [PATCH] x86, MCE, AMD: save IA32_MCi_STATUS before machine_check_poll() resets it Chen Yucong
2014-09-28  8:15   ` Chen Yucong
2014-09-29 12:05   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-30  0:39     ` Chen Yucong
2014-09-30  7:25       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-30  9:56         ` Chen Yucong
2014-09-30 10:09           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-01  4:35             ` Chen Yucong
2014-10-02 13:12               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-02 14:37                 ` Chen Yucong [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <CAOjmkp9qQiTbqU3NUhUDAoQAa8wAPJnE_qXbDuBKrA3ee1_APQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-08 21:52                   ` Fwd: " Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-10-08 22:57                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-09 16:53                       ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-10-09 17:35                         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-09 19:01                           ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-10-21 20:28                             ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-22  1:51                               ` Chen Yucong
2014-10-22  8:16                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-22  8:53                                   ` Chen Yucong
2014-10-22  9:30                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-29 15:59                                       ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-10-30 19:04                                         ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-10-30 21:39                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-01  5:26             ` Chen Yucong
2014-10-01 10:10               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-28  8:09 ` [PATCH] x86, MCE, AMD: use macros to compute bank MSRs Chen Yucong
2014-09-29 11:48 ` Borislav Petkov

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