linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Honour bios-set CMCI threshold

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Message-ID: <507F96F2.9050305@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:13:14 +0530
From:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"gong.chen@...ux.intel.com" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"ananth@...ibm.com" <ananth@...ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Honour bios-set CMCI threshold

On 10/17/2012 10:58 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> BUT (squared) do you even really need to know that thresholds were set? You
> could look at bits {52:38} in the MCi_STATUS information for the bank to see
> how many corrected errors had been logged.

Ah, nice. I think we should be able to use this instead of the sysfs 
attribute.

Thanks,
Naveen

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