Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:35:09 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test4 and hardware reports a non fatal incident |
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:44:56PM +0100, Matt Gibson wrote: > > for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) { > > > > Check out the "for". Or am I reading this wrong? > > Having checked back, this was changed between test-2 and test-3. The > checking code in k7_machine_check() still loops from 0 rather than 1. I > think this may be leading to false reporting of problems, which may be why I > and Tomasz are seeing these MCE messages on our Athlons.
When it was i=0 people were seeing false positives. Starting from 1 reduces that.
> Anyone who knows more about this stuff care to comment? Is someone looking > after MCE at the moment? I couldn't find out much info on it.
in the past, Alan and myself took care of i386, Andi Kleen did AMD64.
Dave
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