linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Update MCE severity condition check

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Message-ID: <20130626211052.GN20274@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:10:52 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Update MCE severity condition check

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:00:10PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > And this obviously is the case for the hardware too, I assume, not only
> > the SDM?
> 
> Yes - we have a magic process which reconfigures all deployed silicon whenever
> a new SDM is published :-)

Haha, I wouldn't wonder if your silicon dudes come up with
reprogrammable fuses someday :-)

> Actually the SDM had been collecting new features for each generation ... each
> time just bolting on a new paragraph or table.  I snapped when I saw the table
> that was proposed for 15-20 to add "continuable" errors and complained that
> it had gotten way too complicated ... and proposed the version that you see in
> the current SDM.
> 
> It accurately portrays what older generations implemented, and adds the new
> continuable (EIPV=1, RIPV=1) while removing many rows and columns.

Cool :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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