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

From: Matt Gibson
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 06:23:50 EST


On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 23:17, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Yes, the kernel has decided that your processor only has 1 Bank of
> MCE register data to report. I don't know how/why. Sorry.

Could it be something to do with this (in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c)?

if (l & (1<<8)) /* Control register present ? */
wrmsr (MSR_IA32_MCG_CTL, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff);
nr_mce_banks = l & 0xff;

for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {

Check out the "for". Or am I reading this wrong?

M

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