Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] ghes_edac: avoid multiple calls to dmi_walk()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Aug 14 2017 - 13:06:05 EST


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:48:57PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> Right, but the issue is how [ghes_edac_]report_mem_error() protects
> from possible concurrent calls from multiple GHES sources when there is
> only a single mci.

Do you know of an actual firmware reporting multiple errors concurrently?

GHES v2 even needs to ACK the current error first before it can read the
next one.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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