> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luck, Tony <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 3:42 PM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; Ashok Raj <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, mce: Fix machine_check_poll() tests for which 
> errors to log
> 
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:25:53PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> > > +         if (!(m.status & MCI_STATUS_PCC) && !(m.status & MCI_STATUS_S))
> > > +                 goto log_it;
> > > +
> >
> > Can you please include a vendor check with this? MCi_STATUS[56] is
> > not defined the same way on AMD systems.
> 
> Original code also looked at MCi_STATUS[56] without a vendor
> check:
> 
> > > -               (m.status & (mca_cfg.ser ? MCI_STATUS_S : MCI_STATUS_UC)))
> 
> Was this OK because you don't set mca_cfg.ser?
> 
> If so, my new code will also skip out before getting to this test. But
> should probably have a better comment. Something like:
> 
> 
>               /*
>                * Newer Intel systems that support software error
>                * recovery need to make some extra checks. Other
>                * CPUs should skip over uncorrected errors, but log
>                * everything else
>                */
>               if (!mca_cfg.ser) {
>                       if (m.status & MCI_STATUS_UC)
>                               continue;
>                       goto log_it;
>               }
> 

Yes, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out.

-Yazen

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