RE: [PATCH 3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized block

From: Ghannam, Yazen
Date: Thu May 17 2018 - 09:08:54 EST


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> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
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> To: Ghannam, Yazen <Yazen.Ghannam@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized
> block
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> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:04:19PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
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>
> I check PFEH is enabled how?
>

If MISC0 is RAZ then you can assume PFEH is enabled. There should be a BIOS
option to disable it.

BTW, I just tried you patch with PFEH disabled and it seems to work fine.

...
> > Since we're caching the values during init, we can drop all the
> > *_on_cpu() calls. What do you think?
>
> Well, if they're all the same on all CPUs, sure. That's your call.
>

Let's drop them. We won't need them since we're caching the values during
init. And the init code is run on the target CPU.

We can just make smca_bank_addrs[][] into per_cpu when we need to support
different values on different CPUs.

Thanks,
Yazen