linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Don't report L1 BTB MCA errors on some Family 17h models

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Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:19:57 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
cc:     "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bp@...e.de" <bp@...e.de>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "rafal@...ecki.pl" <rafal@...ecki.pl>,
        "clemej@...il.com" <clemej@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Don't report L1 BTB MCA errors on
 some Family 17h models



On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:

> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> 
> AMD Family 17h Models 10h-2Fh may report a high number of L1 BTB MCA
> errors under certain conditions. The errors are benign and can safely be
> ignored. However, the high error rate may cause the MCA threshold
> counter to overflow causing a high rate of thresholding interrupts. In
> addition, users may see the errors reported through the AMD MCE decoder
> module, even with the interrupt disabled, due to MCA polling.
> 
> This error is reported through the Instruction Fetch bank.
> 
> Clear the "Counter Present" bit in the Instruction Fetch bank's
> MCA_MISC0 register. This will prevent enabling MCA thresholding on this
> bank which will prevent the high interrupt rate due to this error.
> 
> Define an AMD-specific function to filter these errors from the MCE
> event pool.
> 
> Rename filter function in EDAC/mce_amd to avoid a naming conflict.
> 
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.0.x: c95b323dcd35: x86/MCE/AMD: Turn off MC4_MISC thresholding on all family 0x15 models

What is this supposed to tell us?

> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.0.x: 30aa3d26edb0: x86/MCE/AMD: Carve out the MC4_MISC thresholding quirk
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.0.x: 9308fd407455: x86/MCE: Group AMD function prototypes in <asm/mce.h>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.0.x

Confused.

Thanks,

	tglx