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

Dave Jones
2003-08-30T13:36:13Z

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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