On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 10:00:50AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> Couple of issues here:
> 1) MCE_LOG_LEN is only 32 - so we may have more pending records than will
> fit in the buffer on high core count cpus
> 2) During a panic we may have a lot of duplicate records because multiple
> logical cpus may have seen and logged the same error because some
> banks are shared.
>
> Switch to using the genpool to look for the pending records. Squeeze
> out duplicated records.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
> ---
> v3: Make mce_cmp() behave like other *cmp() functions: return 0 for equality
> (Boris)
>
> v2: Better names and code layout (Boris)
> Revised commments on mce record comparisons (Ashok)
>
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-genpool.c | 46
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h | 15 ++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 21 ++++++--------
> 3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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