[PATCH] log machine check errors

Jake Moilanen moilanen at austin.ibm.com
Fri Aug 27 08:19:48 EST 2004


> Actually, there is one thing we probably should do, and that's to
> change the buffer to 4K now, so that if/when firmware moves to 4K,
> older kernels (i.e. the ones we are creating now) will continue
> to work correctly.

I personally disagree w/ doing this.  Memory is cheap, but
RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX is used to define at least 4 static buffers that I
can think of off the top of my head.  So that is an extra 8K for
something that _may_ happen in the future.  Plus we've seen bugs in the
Firmware where they do not handle us passing the error log max in
correctly.  We may regress boxes.

Jake

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