From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755785AbcEaSJO (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2016 14:09:14 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:55514 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755236AbcEaSJM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2016 14:09:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 20:09:00 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Aristeu Rozanski Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Do not use bank 1 for APEI generated error logs. Message-ID: <20160531180900.GE23446@pd.tnic> References: <20160528073404.GA4584@nazgul.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F3A0F71EC@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F3A0F71EC@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 05:11:45PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > Because that is DDR3/DDR4 "bank" (internal DIMM detail) as opposed > to machine check "bank" (CPU microarchitecture detail). We need the > latter here. Ok, I see. Btw, would it have any benefit of writing a "magic" value in m.bank to denote the error comes from APEI instead of number of banks which differs betweem generations? Something like m.bank = -1; or so? 255 banks will never happen anyway! (Famous last words ... :-))) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.