[PATCH] log machine check errors

[Linas Vepstas]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:19:48PM -0500, Jake Moilanen was heard to remark:
>
> > 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.

yes.  BTW, they're statically allocated so that they end up in RMO
so firmware can get at them.

> 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.

I think I've fixed all of those now, pending yesterday's patch.

--linas

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