This eliminates checking of a set AMD procesor family if mce is allowed and relies on the information being in CPUID. Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara Index: 2.6-linus-git/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c =================================================================== --- 2.6-linus-git.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ 2.6-linus-git/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ void mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) switch (c->x86_vendor) { case X86_VENDOR_AMD: - if (c->x86==6 || c->x86==15) - amd_mcheck_init(c); + amd_mcheck_init(c); break; case X86_VENDOR_INTEL: Index: 2.6-linus-git/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c =================================================================== --- 2.6-linus-git.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c +++ 2.6-linus-git/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c @@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ void amd_mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 machine_check_vector = k7_machine_check; wmb(); + if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MCE)) + return; + printk (KERN_INFO "Intel machine check architecture supported.\n"); rdmsr (MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP, l, h); if (l & (1<<8)) /* Control register present ? */