Re: BUG: key ffff880c1148c478 not in .data! (V3.10.0)

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:21:06 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:57:41AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > This will be overriding the content of the static var mc_bus every for
> > every new memory controller. Are you sure that bus.name is only used
> > on register, or if its contents is stored somewhere?
> 
> bus_register does kobject_set_name which copies bus->name, for example,

Ok, so, it could be safe.

> but I didn't look exhaustively.

Did you try to remove and reinsert the edac driver a few times, on a
multi-memory controller machine? The bus nodes got created properly?
> 
> Just to be on the safe side, I should probably do a
> 
> static const char **bus_names = { "mc0", "mc1", ..., "mc7" };

You would likely to use an array for the bus_type too, if reusing
the static one is an issue.

> and use it. Are 8 enough for your edac drivers too?

With edac_ghes, I suspect that the worse case, on Intel side, is the
Nehalem/Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge EX machines.

Tony,

What would be a reasonable maximum limit for the number of memory
controllers, on a -EX machine?

Cheers,
Mauro
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