x86/mce: Fix return value of mce_chrdev_read() when erst is disabled

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Current kernel MCE code reads ERST at the first reading of /dev/mcelog
(maybe in starting mcelogd,) even if the system does not support ERST,
which results in a fake "no such device" message (as described in [1].)
This problem is not critical, but can confuse system admins.
This patch fixes it by filtering the return value from lower (ACPI) layer.

 [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1060250

Reported by: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/299
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

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Naoya Horiguchi 2012-01-23 15:54:52 -05:00 • committed by Tony Luck

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