Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86-mce: Clear CMCI enable on all claimed CMCI banks before reboot.

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:56:05AM -0700, Havard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Even on kexec-enabled kernels, we might be doing a regular BIOS boot.
> Is there any way to detect that we're doing a kexec boot and only
> clearing the MSRs in that case?

What Tony said: if the processor resets, those MSRs are cleared, forget
BIOS.

I dunno though whether the processor gets reset during kexec though. It
needs code staring...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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