Re: [PATCH] Add MCE resume under ia32

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> It's widely seen a MCE non-fatal error reported after resume. It seems
> MCE resume is lacked under ia32. This patch tries to fix the gap.

Well, you patch seems like missing piece of puzzle, but:

a) we probably want to do it for x86-64, too, and 

b)

> diff -puN arch/i386/power/cpu.c~mcheck_resume arch/i386/power/cpu.c
> --- linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/power/cpu.c~mcheck_resume	2005-08-23 09:32:13.054008584 +0800
> +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-root/arch/i386/power/cpu.c	2005-08-23 09:41:54.992540480 +0800
> @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ static void fix_processor_context(void)
>  
>  }
>  
> +extern void mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
> +
>  void __restore_processor_state(struct saved_context *ctxt)
>  {
>  	/*


this should go to some header file and most importantly

> @@ -138,6 +140,9 @@ void __restore_processor_state(struct sa
>  	fix_processor_context();
>  	do_fpu_end();
>  	mtrr_ap_init();
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
> +	mcheck_init(&boot_cpu_data);
> +#endif
>  }

c) can't we register MCEs like some kind of system device so that this
kind of hooks is not neccessary?
								Pavel
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