linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/mce/AMD: Increase size of bank

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Message-ID: <20160708093242.GB3808@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 11:32:42 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@....com>,
	Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/mce/AMD: Increase size of bank_map type

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:21:35AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Btw., is there any check somewhere which printed a helpful warning when we 
> exceeded the 8 banks limit - and which would prints a helpful warning if we ever 
> exceed the 32 banks limit?

__mcheck_cpu_cap_init().

And it'll be hard to exceed this limit as there are hw limitations in play.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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