linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mce: acpi/apei: Honour Firmware First for MCA banks listed in APEI HEST CMC

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Message-ID: <20130621083608.GE22006@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:36:08 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tony.luck@...el.com, ananth@...ibm.com, masbock@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lcm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, ying.huang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mce: acpi/apei: Honour Firmware First for MCA
 banks listed in APEI HEST CMC

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 01:16:50PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Yes, but I'm afraid this won't work either - mce_banks_owned is
> cleared during cpu offline. This is necessary since a cmci
> rediscover is triggered on cpu offline, so that if this bank is
> shared across cores, a different cpu can claim ownership of this
> bank.

What for? Sounds strange to me.

Anyway, the reason for which mce_banks_owned won't work is because it
is in mce_intel and we need a mce.c global bitfield for banks which are
excluded from CE handling.

So ok, I'm persuaded, yet another bitfield it is ... :-\

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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