[PATCH 0/2] Fix machine check recovery for instruction fault on Sandy Bridge

2012-07-23 Thread Tony Luck
[Unchanged since last posted - except to add Boris' Acked-by since after further discussion his nitpick didn't warrant a change. Ready for x86/mce branch ... and if possible to move to Linus in this merge window] This patch series adds a workaround for some strange asymmetry between how machine

[PATCH 0/2] Fix machine check recovery for instruction fault on Sandy Bridge

2012-07-19 Thread Tony Luck
This patch series adds a workaround for some strange asymmetry between how machine checks are reported for data and instruction fetches. For instruction fetch error the processor does not set the EIPV bit in the MCG_STATUS register on the affected processor, leading us to believe that the cs/ip val