Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:06:50 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: [Patch] MCE, APEI: Don't enable CMCI when Firmware First mode is set in |
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:30:05PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > >Hmm, so if CMCI is not supported, you just disabled polling of this bank > >and returned here. Not good. > > This is on purpose. If the bank doesn't support CMCI and we were > polling it earlier, we want to disable that. The firmware should be > notifying us of error events in either case.
Not for corrected errors - for those we poll since the hardware doesn't generate an exception for them.
Basically, the absence of CMCI support shouldn't change the old polling behavior.
Thanks.
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