Re: [RFC] x86/mce: Add workaround for SKX/CLX/CPX spurious machine checks

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Feb 07 2022 - 16:20:29 EST


On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 09:07:05PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Yes. That would work. It's an extra MSR read instead of a memory read.
> But this isn't a performance path.

Exactly.

> The erratum has made its way through to the public specification
> update yet :-(

You mean "has not"?

In any case, I guess you could say something like:

pr_err_once("Erratum #XXX detected, disabling fast string copy instructions.\n");

or so and people can search with the erratum number later where the doc
will explain it in more detail.

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Boris.

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