[PATCH] ia64: CPE & CMC polling for 2.5
Here's another feature I'd like to add to MCA support; the ability to detect a flood of CMCs and switch to polling mode for retrieving CMC logs. Once no more CMC logs are found, return to and interrupt driven handler. If the flood threshold is never reached, the CMC handler simply behaves as it does today. It's useful to get the CMC logs to know that something isn't quite right, but if you end up with some bad memory it's too easy for them to interfere with useful work. I've tested this on an HP rx2600, with a known bad DIMM. This DIMM acts like it has a completely dead DRAM on it. With the current CMC handler, once I hit that range of memory addresses, the system essentially dies, constantly handling CMC errors. With this patch, the system hits the threshold quickly, but remains functional with no performance degredation once in polling mode. This patch applies against linux-2.4.20-ia64-021210 and includes: - Switching CMCs to polling mode at predeterimined threshold - If polling for CPEs, poll on all processors - Fix timestamp on log output
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