Re: [PATCH v2 02/24] EDAC, ghes: Fix grain calculation

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 03:31:41 EST


On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 06:42:00AM +0000, Robert Richter wrote:
> I have seen you had actively promoted this style guideline, I even was
> not aware of it, thanks for the pointer.

It is about time we started writing proper commit messages. How long are
we trying, 20 years...?

> With the grain_bits calculation the mask is rounded up to the next
> power of 2 value.

mask = 0xffffffffff00ff00
~mask = 0x0000000000ff00ff
~mask + 1 = 0x0000000000ff0100

Your "trick" of adding a 1 to get to the most significant bit simply
doesn't work here. Thus:

"I guess we can leave it like that for now until some "inventive"
firmware actually does it."

> The reason this is here is because this check will be moved to
> edac_raw_mc_handle_error() to unify edac_mc and ghes code (see patch
> #4).

Ok.

Thx.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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