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| author | Yazen Ghannam | 2016-11-22 15:40:16 -0600 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov | 2016-11-23 19:04:11 +0100 |
| commit | 044e7a414be9ba20826e5fd482214686193fe7b6 (patch) | |
| tree | b2c6c6f54eb54c1f10c7f04ed7baef3d468cd159 /drivers/edac | |
| parent | d12a969ebbfcfc25853c4147d42b388f758e8784 (diff) | |
EDAC, amd64: Don't force-enable ECC checking on newer systems
It's not recommended for the OS to try and force-enable ECC checking.
This is considered a firmware task since it includes memory training,
etc, so don't change ECC settings on Fam17h or newer systems and inform
the user.
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravindksg.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479850816-1595-1-git-send-email-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com
[ Put the "forcing" message in an else branch. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/edac')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c index dd45cff02388..ca1d63aa4e59 100644 --- a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c +++ b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c @@ -2629,7 +2629,6 @@ static void restore_ecc_error_reporting(struct ecc_settings *s, u16 nid, { u32 value, mask = 0x3; /* UECC/CECC enable */ - if (!s->nbctl_valid) return; @@ -2895,7 +2894,11 @@ static int probe_one_instance(unsigned int nid) if (!ecc_enable_override) goto err_enable; - amd64_warn("Forcing ECC on!\n"); + if (boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 0x17) { + amd64_warn("Forcing ECC on is not recommended on newer systems. Please enable ECC in BIOS."); + goto err_enable; + } else + amd64_warn("Forcing ECC on!\n"); if (!enable_ecc_error_reporting(s, nid, F3)) goto err_enable; @@ -2904,7 +2907,9 @@ static int probe_one_instance(unsigned int nid) ret = init_one_instance(nid); if (ret < 0) { amd64_err("Error probing instance: %d\n", nid); - restore_ecc_error_reporting(s, nid, F3); + + if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0x17) + restore_ecc_error_reporting(s, nid, F3); } return ret; |