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

[Dave Jones]

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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