RE: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL names

[Ghannam, Yazen]

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> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:16 AM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <Yazen.Ghannam@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL
> names
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:46:33PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> > Future SMCA systems may have banks whose MCA_IPID is not known so we
> 
> You lost me here. How would the IPID not be known? Are you talking about
> an old kernel running on new HW and thus the HardwareID in its MCA_IPID
> to be unknown to the old kernel?
> 

Yes, that's right: old kernel on new HW.

> > In the past, the sysfs entries were named something like "th_bank#" before
> > each bank was given a more descriptive name. We can go back to this format
> > as a fallback for unrecognized bank types. This will fix the issue with sysfs
> > failing and also the interface will still work on new hardware.
> 
> You could do: th_bank#<HardwareID> so that we can find what it is by
> grepping the PPR.
> 

Good idea. Will do.

Thanks,
Yazen