[tip:ras/core] x86/mce/AMD: Reduce number of blocks scanned per bank

From: tip-bot for Aravind Gopalakrishnan
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 06:42:17 EST


Commit-ID: 60f116fca162d9488f783f5014779463243ab7a2
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/60f116fca162d9488f783f5014779463243ab7a2
Author: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:41:50 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 10:53:57 +0100

x86/mce/AMD: Reduce number of blocks scanned per bank

>From Fam17h onwards, the number of extended MCx_MISC register blocks is
reduced to 4. It is an architectural change from what we had on
earlier processors.

Although theoritically the total number of extended MCx_MISC
registers was 8 in earlier processor families, in practice we
only had to use the extra registers for MC4. And only 2 of those
were used. So this change does not affect older processors.
Tested on Fam10h and Fam15h systems.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453750913-4781-6-git-send-email-bp@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
index 3068ce2..5982227 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
#include <asm/msr.h>
#include <asm/trace/irq_vectors.h>

-#define NR_BLOCKS 9
+#define NR_BLOCKS 5
#define THRESHOLD_MAX 0xFFF
#define INT_TYPE_APIC 0x00020000
#define MASK_VALID_HI 0x80000000