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Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:40:07 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
> 
> The Extended Error Code Bitmap (xec_bitmap) for a Scalable MCA bank type
> was intended to be used by the kernel to filter out invalid error codes
> on a system. However, this is unnecessary because the hardware will only
> report valid error codes.

That's a kinda bold statement. :)

Are you saying, you wanna trust verification and that check is totally
useless?

Or is there another reason for removing it?

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    Boris.

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