On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:08:47PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > The Corrected Machine Check structure (CMC) in HEST has a flag which can be > set by the firmware to indicate to the OS that it prefers to process the > corrected error events first. In this scenario, the OS is expected to not > monitor for corrected errors (through CMCI/polling). Instead, the firmware > notifies the OS on corrected error events through GHES. > > Linux already has support for GHES. This patch adds support for parsing CMC > structure and to disable CMCI/polling if the firmware first flag is set. > > Further, the list of machine check bank structures at the end of CMC is used > to determine which MCA banks function in FF mode, so that we continue to > monitor error events on the other banks. > > > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
