[PATCH] log machine check errors

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Aug 26 15:57:20 EST 2004


Jake Moilanen writes:

> Somewhere along the line it looks like logging machine check errors
> never got put in 2.6.  Machine check error logs were one of the main
> reasons for storing logs to nvram.
>
> Here's a forward port of the 2.4 code the Dave Altobelli originally
> wrote.
[snip]

> +char mce_data_buf[RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX]__page_aligned;

Why is this page-aligned?

Paul.

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