Re: [PATCH] x86, mce, severities: Add AMD severities function

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 19 2015 - 05:31:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:01:32AM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> One other thought. Instead of the run-time test to see if this is an AMD processor on every call
> to this function, would it be cleaner to:
>
> 1) Rename existing mce_severity() function to mce_severity_intel()
> 2) Declare a function pointer named mce_severity.
> 3) Assign that pointer to the _intel() or _amd() function in mce_init()

Yes, of course. We do that (or at least pretty close) in other paths
too.

Thanks.

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Boris.

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