Re: [PATCHv2] x86, mce: Kernel does full decoding for AMD, others still need /dev/mcelog reports

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jan 30 2015 - 14:14:18 EST


On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:16:48AM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> We should only believe a NOTIFY_STOP on an AMD system. For others
> we need to provide the error record out to a user level decoder
> via /dev/mcelog.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Boris says: "on AMD, mcelog is not needed"
>
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
> index d2c611699cd9..ea1bc1a05c07 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
> @@ -151,12 +151,13 @@ void mce_log(struct mce *mce)
> {
> unsigned next, entry;
> int ret = 0;
> + struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
>
> /* Emit the trace record: */
> trace_mce_record(mce);
>
> ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, mce);
> - if (ret == NOTIFY_STOP)
> + if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD && ret == NOTIFY_STOP)

Yeah, ok, we do other vendor checks in mce.c already.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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