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edac, mce, amd: silence GART TLB errors 

Although reporting of benign GART TLB errors is disabled in
__mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks, those are still being logged, and, as a
result, trip up amd64_edac. Pull up reporting check so that machines
with loaded edac module bail out early and don't spit fragments into
dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
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Borislav Petkov 2009-12-15 16:03:53 +01:00
parent 35d8069234
commit 256f7276af
1 changed files with 6 additions and 15 deletions
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@ -299,6 +299,12 @@ void amd_decode_nb_mce(int node_id, struct err_regs *regs, int handle_errors)
if (!handle_errors)
return;
/*
* GART TLB error reporting is disabled by default. Bail out early.
*/
if (TLB_ERROR(ec) && !report_gart_errors)
return;
pr_emerg(" Northbridge Error, node %d", node_id);
/*
@ -332,21 +338,6 @@ static void amd_decode_fr_mce(u64 mc5_status)
static inline void amd_decode_err_code(unsigned int ec)
{
if (TLB_ERROR(ec)) {
/*
* GART errors are intended to help graphics driver developers
* to detect bad GART PTEs. It is recommended by AMD to disable
* GART table walk error reporting by default[1] (currently
* being disabled in mce_cpu_quirks()) and according to the
* comment in mce_cpu_quirks(), such GART errors can be
* incorrectly triggered. We may see these errors anyway and
* unless requested by the user, they won't be reported.
*
* [1] section 13.10.1 on BIOS and Kernel Developers Guide for
* AMD NPT family 0Fh processors
*/
if (!report_gart_errors)
return;
pr_emerg(" Transaction: %s, Cache Level %s\n",
TT_MSG(ec), LL_MSG(ec));
} else if (MEM_ERROR(ec)) {