linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] AMD thresholding fixes for 3.6

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:49:31 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	x86 <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AMD thresholding fixes for 3.6


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> those didn't make it in time for the merge window so I'm sending them
> now so at they can spend their quality time in linux-next.
> 
> Please pull, thanks.
> 
> The following changes since commit f8f5701bdaf9134b1f90e5044a82c66324d2073f:
> 
>   Linux 3.5-rc1 (2012-06-02 18:29:26 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras.git tags/amd-thresholding-fixes-for-3.6
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 11122570193a429f72014703ce6b849640f8d7e5:
> 
>   x86, MCE, AMD: Update copyrights and boilerplate (2012-06-07 12:43:50 +0200)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AMD thresholding fixes for 3.6
> 
> Those are a bunch of patches which give the MCE thresholding code a
> hard look and a scrubbing to remove a couple of annoyances like sysfs
> warnings when running CPU off-/online tests and the threshold_bank4 node
> under /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/ is a symlink.
> 
> It also gives proper names to the thresholding banks instead of simply
> enumerating them, like this:
> 
>      /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck0/
>      |-- bank0
>      |-- bank1
>      |-- bank2
>      |-- bank3
>      |-- bank4
>      |-- bank5
>      |-- bank6
>      |-- check_interval
>      |-- cmci_disabled
>      |-- combined_unit
>      |   |-- combined_unit
>      |       |-- error_count
>      |       |-- threshold_limit
>      |-- dont_log_ce
>      |-- execution_unit
>      |   |-- execution_unit
>      |       |-- error_count
>      |       |-- threshold_limit
>      |-- ignore_ce
>      |-- insn_fetch
>      |   |-- insn_fetch
>      |       |-- error_count
>      |       |-- threshold_limit
>      |-- load_store
>      |   |-- load_store
>      |       |-- error_count
>      |       |-- threshold_limit
>      |-- monarch_timeout
>      |-- northbridge
>      |   |-- dram
>      |   |   |-- error_count
>      |   |   |-- interrupt_enable
>      |   |   |-- threshold_limit
>      |   |-- ht_links
>      |   |   |-- error_count
>      |   |   |-- interrupt_enable
>      |   |   |-- threshold_limit
>      |   |-- l3_cache
>      |       |-- error_count
>      |       |-- interrupt_enable
>      |       |-- threshold_limit
>     ...
> 
> It is tested on all our families >= K8.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Borislav Petkov (9):
>       x86, amd_nb: Export model 0x10 and later PCI id
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Remove shared banks sysfs linking
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Remove local_allocate_... wrapper
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Move shared bank to node descriptor
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Print decimal thresholding values
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Cleanup reading of error_count
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Make error_count read only
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Give proper names to the thresholding banks
>       x86, MCE, AMD: Update copyrights and boilerplate
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h        |  21 +++
>  arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c             |   1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 264 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  drivers/hwmon/k10temp.c              |   5 +-
>  include/linux/pci_ids.h              |   1 +
>  5 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks Boris!

	Ingo
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