Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mce/AMD: Carve out SMCA bank configuration

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 15:23:39 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
>
> Scalable MCA systems have a new MCA_CONFIG register that we use to
> configure each bank. We currently use this when we set up thresholding.
> However, this is logically separate.
>
> Move setup of MCA_CONFIG into a separate function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

...

> /* cpu init entry point, called from mce.c with preempt off */
> @@ -515,8 +519,10 @@ void mce_amd_feature_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> int offset = -1;
>
> for (bank = 0; bank < mca_cfg.banks; ++bank) {
> - if (mce_flags.smca)
> + if (mce_flags.smca) {
> get_smca_bank_info(bank);
> + set_smca_config(bank);

Or simply bundle those two which do something SMCA-aware per bank into a single:

smca_configure(bank);

which reads almost like a sentence.

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