Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Update MCE severity condition check

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jun 26 2013 - 17:10:59 EST


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:00:10PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > And this obviously is the case for the hardware too, I assume, not only
> > the SDM?
>
> Yes - we have a magic process which reconfigures all deployed silicon whenever
> a new SDM is published :-)

Haha, I wouldn't wonder if your silicon dudes come up with
reprogrammable fuses someday :-)

> Actually the SDM had been collecting new features for each generation ... each
> time just bolting on a new paragraph or table. I snapped when I saw the table
> that was proposed for 15-20 to add "continuable" errors and complained that
> it had gotten way too complicated ... and proposed the version that you see in
> the current SDM.
>
> It accurately portrays what older generations implemented, and adds the new
> continuable (EIPV=1, RIPV=1) while removing many rows and columns.

Cool :)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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