[PATCH] Machine Check Architecture on amd64

[Ed Schouten]

* Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>  I have a simple patch for amd64 that uses the Machine Check 
>  Architecture/Exceptions on most recent x86 CPUs to detect memory errors:
> 
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/mce-20070621.diff
> 
>  It will report uncorrected and corrected errors (the latter, only if sysctl 
>  machdep.mce.log_corrected=1).
>  You can ask the kernel to panic if it gets an uncorrected error by setting 
>  machdep.mce.panic_on_uc=1.
>  All this can be disabled by setting the machdep.mce.enable tunable to 0. I'm 
>  still not sure if I want this enabled by default, as I don't have any Intel 
>  machines to test this on, but I have tested it on Opteron (both corrected 
>  and uncorrected errors).
> 
>  I would appreciate it if someone would try this, especially if you have 
>  Intel machines with bad RAM.
> 
>  Comments are welcome.

|	/*
|	 * Uncorrected MCEs will generate a #MC, while corrected
|	 * don't, so we have to periodically poll for them.
|	 */

What about adding an option to only print uncorrected MCE's? That's the
most interesting data and we can get that without using a kthread,
right?

Nice work! :-)

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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