From: Matt Gibson <gothick@gothick.org.uk>
Organization: The Wardrobe Happy Cow Emporium
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4 and hardware reports a non fatal incident
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:49:19 +0100
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On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 23:17, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Yes, the kernel has decided that your processor only has 1 Bank of
> MCE register data to report.  I don't know how/why.  Sorry.

Could it be something to do with this (in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c)?

	if (l & (1<<8))	/* Control register present ? */
		wrmsr (MSR_IA32_MCG_CTL, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff);
	nr_mce_banks = l & 0xff;

	for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {

Check out the "for".  Or am I reading this wrong?

M

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