From b2de43605410d1970dc9e0f349e399f1d561be13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Luck Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 14:11:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mce: Do not use bank 1 for APEI generated error logs BIOS can report a memory error to Linux using ACPI/APEI mechanism. When it does this, we create a fictitious machine check error record and feed it into the standard mce_log() function. The error record needs a machine check bank number, and for some reason we chose "1" for this. But "1" is a valid bank number, and this causes confusion and heartburn among h/w folks who are concerned that a memory error signature was somehow logged in bank 1. Change to use "-1" (field is a "u8" so will typically print as 255). This should make it clearer that this error did not originate in a machine check bank. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Aristeu Rozanski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-edac Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b7fffb2b326bc1dd150ffceb9919a803f9496e0e.1464805958.git.tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c index 34c89a3e8260..83f1a98d37db 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ void apei_mce_report_mem_error(int severity, struct cper_sec_mem_err *mem_err) return; mce_setup(&m); - m.bank = 1; + m.bank = -1; /* Fake a memory read error with unknown channel */ m.status = MCI_STATUS_VAL | MCI_STATUS_EN | MCI_STATUS_ADDRV | 0x9f; -- 2.20.1