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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] linux/x86-64: fix Dom0 boot on AMD K8 CPUs

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] linux/x86-64: fix Dom0 boot on AMD K8 CPUs
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:37:53 +0100
Cc: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
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The workaround in question here should be (and is being) applied by the
hypervisor (which doesn't allow any guest - including Dom0 - to write
other than all zeroes or all ones into MCi_CTL).

As usual, written and tested on 2.6.31-rc4 and made apply to the 2.6.18
tree without further testing.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
@@ -369,9 +369,11 @@ static void __cpuinit mce_cpu_quirks(stru
 { 
        /* This should be disabled by the BIOS, but isn't always */
        if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD && c->x86 == 15) {
+#ifndef CONFIG_XEN
                /* disable GART TBL walk error reporting, which trips off 
                   incorrectly with the IOMMU & 3ware & Cerberus. */
                clear_bit(10, &bank[4]);
+#endif
                /* Lots of broken BIOS around that don't clear them
                   by default and leave crap in there. Don't log. */
                mce_bootlog = 0;




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