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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mce: Add Skylake quirk for patrol scrub reported errors
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:41:58AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:33:08PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > If the BIOS option is left in the default setting, uncorrectable errors found
> > by the patrol scrubber are reported with a machine check. Those MSCOD
> > and MCACOD signatures are the same ... but that's not important because
> > MCi_STATUS.UC==1. So Linux doesn't need to jump through hoops to
> > "upgrade" the severity.
>
> No, this is not what I meant: I meant when you have the setting enabled
> to downgrade those errors, can they be detected as part of another MCE
> being raised...

Yes one of these downgraded error logs could be sitting in a bank
whe a different machine check fires. But the severity calculation will
ignore it as MCi_STATUS.EN==0

-Tony

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