Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:36:08 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mce: acpi/apei: Honour Firmware First for MCA banks listed in APEI HEST CMC |
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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.
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