Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760299AbXEQXiZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 19:38:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755649AbXEQXiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 19:38:18 -0400 Received: from gherkin.frus.com ([192.158.254.49]:51833 "EHLO gherkin.frus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755450AbXEQXiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 19:38:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1 In-Reply-To: <200705171435.31010.ak@suse.de> "from Andi Kleen at May 17, 2007 02:35:30 pm" To: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:38:13 -0500 (CDT) CC: Chuck Ebbert , Jan Engelhardt , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joachim Deguara X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20070517233813.266B6DBA1@gherkin.frus.com> From: rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob Tracy) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1089 Lines: 33 Andi Kleen wrote: > Hmpf. > > We cold either use rdmsr_safe or add a family check again or clear it > in k6 setup. I think clearing it in setup is cleanest. > > Does this patch work? > > -Andi > > Clear MCE flag on AMD K6 > > It reports machine check capability in CPUID, but doesn't actually > implement all the necessary MSRs of the standard Intel machine > check architecture. > > This fixes a boot failure recently introduced. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen ACK. I reinstalled Joachim's patch (default 2.6.22-rc1 state), and added your patch. Life is good: we have a fix/workaround. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org rct@frus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/