linux/arch
Borislav Petkov 6dcbfe4f0b x86, AMD, MCE thresholding: Fix the MCi_MISCj iteration order
This fixes possible cases of not collecting valid error info in
the MCE error thresholding groups on F10h hardware.

The current code contains a subtle problem of checking only the
Valid bit of MSR0000_0413 (which is MC4_MISC0 - DRAM
thresholding group) in its first iteration and breaking out if
the bit is cleared.

But (!), this MSR contains an offset value, BlkPtr[31:24], which
points to the remaining MSRs in this thresholding group which
might contain valid information too. But if we bail out only
after we checked the valid bit in the first MSR and not the
block pointer too, we miss that other information.

The thing is, MC4_MISC0[BlkPtr] is not predicated on
MCi_STATUS[MiscV] or MC4_MISC0[Valid] and should be checked
prior to iterating over the MCI_MISCj thresholding group,
irrespective of the MC4_MISC0[Valid] setting.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-11 11:04:36 +02:00
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alpha Fix up more fallout form alpha signal cleanups 2010-09-30 08:37:38 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-05 11:57:37 -07:00
avr32 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin: bf52x/bf54x boards: drop unused nand page size 2010-08-27 16:08:43 -04:00
cris Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
frv frv: double syscall restarts, syscall restart in sigreturn() 2010-09-20 10:44:38 -07:00
h8300 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2010-09-16 12:58:44 -07:00
m32r m32r: fix breakage from "m32r: use generic ptrace_resume code" 2010-09-24 13:54:19 -07:00
m68k arch/m68k/mac/macboing.c: use unsigned long for irqflags 2010-10-01 10:50:58 -07:00
m68knommu m68k,m68knommu: Wire up fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, and prlimit64 2010-09-13 20:28:45 +02:00
microblaze Merge branch 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2010-08-18 09:26:17 -07:00
mips MIPS: Octeon: Place cnmips_cu2_setup in __init memory. 2010-10-04 18:34:00 +01:00
mn10300 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
parisc modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: remove unused variable 2010-10-05 17:27:54 -07:00
s390 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
score Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
sh modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2010-09-22 12:09:46 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2010-09-24 19:08:39 -07:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-10-04 11:11:01 -07:00
x86 x86, AMD, MCE thresholding: Fix the MCi_MISCj iteration order 2010-10-11 11:04:36 +02:00
xtensa Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
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Kconfig kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency 2010-09-13 20:41:31 +02:00