linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint

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Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:15:46 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	EDAC devel <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint

> On all the above, the socket label starts on 1, but I bet we'll find cases
> where it start from 0.

Agreed. "Socket Designation" seems to be a free format string at the whim of
the board designer (and then interpreted and string filled in by a BIOS writer
with all the usual caveats that implies).

I suppose a smart reporting system would try to query this stuff ahead of
time to determine whether socket numbers were zero based, one based, or something
else altogether (Socket A, B, C ????)

-Tony
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