On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:40:07AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote: > > From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghan...@amd.com> > > > > The Extended Error Code Bitmap (xec_bitmap) for a Scalable MCA bank type > > was intended to be used by the kernel to filter out invalid error codes > > on a system. However, this is unnecessary because the hardware will only > > report valid error codes. > > That's a kinda bold statement. :) >
Yeah, I'm trying to keep "may" out of my vocabulary. :) > Are you saying, you wanna trust verification and that check is totally > useless? > I do. This check was added because I wasn't sure what to expect with this new architecural extension. But after a few product releases, it has been unnecessary. And I don't see a need for it with future systems. Thanks, Yazen
