From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

They are rumoured to be much more reliable than the RIP in the stack frame on
P4s.

This is a borderline case because the code is very simple.  Please note there
are no plans to add support for all the MCE register MSRs.

Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c~x86_64-use-the-extended-rip-msr-for-machine-check 
arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
--- 
25/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c~x86_64-use-the-extended-rip-msr-for-machine-check   
    2005-04-12 03:21:24.452419568 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c    2005-04-12 03:21:24.455419112 -0700
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static int banks;
 static unsigned long bank[NR_BANKS] = { [0 ... NR_BANKS-1] = ~0UL };
 static unsigned long console_logged;
 static int notify_user;
+static int rip_msr;
 
 /*
  * Lockless MCE logging infrastructure.
@@ -124,6 +125,23 @@ static int mce_available(struct cpuinfo_
               test_bit(X86_FEATURE_MCA, &c->x86_capability);
 }
 
+static inline void mce_get_rip(struct mce *m, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+       if (regs && (m->mcgstatus & MCG_STATUS_RIPV)) {
+               m->rip = regs->rip;
+               m->cs = regs->cs;
+       } else {
+               m->rip = 0;
+               m->cs = 0;
+       }
+       if (rip_msr) {
+               /* Assume the RIP in the MSR is exact. Is this true? */
+               m->mcgstatus |= MCG_STATUS_EIPV;
+               rdmsrl(rip_msr, m->rip);
+               m->cs = 0;
+       }
+}
+
 /* 
  * The actual machine check handler
  */
@@ -176,14 +194,7 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs * r
                if (m.status & MCI_STATUS_ADDRV)
                        rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MC0_ADDR + i*4, m.addr);
 
-               if (regs && (m.mcgstatus & MCG_STATUS_RIPV)) {
-                       m.rip = regs->rip;
-                       m.cs = regs->cs;
-               } else {
-                       m.rip = 0;
-                       m.cs = 0;
-               }
-
+               mce_get_rip(&m, regs);
                if (error_code != -1)
                        rdtscll(m.tsc);
                wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS + i*4, 0);
@@ -296,6 +307,9 @@ static void mce_init(void *dummy)
                printk(KERN_INFO "MCE: warning: using only %d banks\n", banks);
                banks = NR_BANKS; 
        }
+       /* Use accurate RIP reporting if available. */
+       if ((cap & (1<<9)) && ((cap >> 16) & 0xff) >= 9)
+               rip_msr = MSR_IA32_MCG_EIP;
 
        /* Log the machine checks left over from the previous reset.
           This also clears all registers */
_
-
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