Re: [PATCH 3/3] ie31200_edac: Add driver

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 02:57:19PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> Right, so maybe the fact that its a desktop chipset means that it
> behaves differently and doesn't raise MCEs on memory errors. We have a
> bunch of these processors and we haven't yet seen an MCE raised on a
> memory error.

This can't be - an uncorrectable error will have to generate a machine
check exception if consumed - there's no other option.

Can you do

rdmsr 0x179
rdmsr 0x17b

and paste the results here?

> The reason I went with ie31200 is that afaiu the memory controller hub
> is integrated into the cpu. Another alternative might be ie312xx?

Yeah, if Tony doesn't come up with something more official about that
MCH.

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    Boris.

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