Re: [patch] reproducible athlon mce fix

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:52:03PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:57:48PM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> 
>  >  	preempt_disable(); 
>  > +#if CONFIG_MK7
>  > +	for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
>  > +#else
>  >  	for (i=0; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
>  > +#endif
>  >  		rdmsr (MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS+i*4, low, high);
> 
> This needs to be a runtime check. In 2.6, a K7 can boot
> a P4 kernel, and vice versa.
> 

Yes, of course.

Would it be sufficient to check for the boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6 and
boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD?  This would seem to do
the right thing.  Updated patch attached.


	- g.
--- linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c.orig	2003-11-02 13:31:43.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/non-fatal.c	2003-11-02 21:50:36.000000000 +0800
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 static struct timer_list mce_timer;
 static int timerset;
+static int startbank;
 
 #define MCE_RATE	15*HZ	/* timer rate is 15s */
 
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@
 	int i;
 
 	preempt_disable(); 
-	for (i=0; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
+	for (i=startbank; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
 		rdmsr (MSR_IA32_MC0_STATUS+i*4, low, high);
 
 		if (high & (1<<31)) {
@@ -68,6 +69,19 @@
 
 static int __init init_nonfatal_mce_checker(void)
 {
+	/*
+	   Certain Athlons would cause spurious MCE non-fatal
+	   exception check to be reported, if we poke at bank 0.
+	   Avoid this if the running machine is an Athlon.
+
+	   -- geoff.
+	*/
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD && 
+	    boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6)
+		startbank = 1;
+	else
+		startbank = 0;
+
 	if (timerset == 0) {
 		/* Set the timer to check for non-fatal
 		   errors every MCE_RATE seconds */