Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Increase maximum number of banks to 64

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:11:05AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> Thanks. Yeah, they're identical:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    15710076        13519306        5398528 34627910        2106146   vmlinux-32banks
>    15710076        13519306        5398528 34627910        2106146   vmlinux-64banks

So I went crazy here and built allmodconfigs for hypothetical CPUs which
support up to 4K MCA banks:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
24618040        27211906        35409988        87239934        5332cfe vmlinux-32banks
24618040        27211906        35409988        87239934        5332cfe vmlinux-64banks
24618040        27211906        35409988        87239934        5332cfe vmlinux-128banks

For the first three - up to 128 banks, the sizes don't change.

24618000        27216002        35401796        87235798        5331cd6 vmlinux-256banks

Somewhere after 128 banks, it grows the data section but by exactly 4K,
i.e., one more page:

27216002 - 27211906 = 4096

The last page is not full, of course.

27216002 % 4096 = 2178
27211906 % 4096 = 2178

24618000        27220098        35401796        87239894        5332cd6 vmlinux-512banks

The same happens here.

27220098 - 27216002 = 4096
27220098 % 4096 = 2178

And so on:

24618000        27228290        35393604        87239894        5332cd6 vmlinux-1024banks
24618000        27244674        35377220        87239894        5332cd6 vmlinux-2048banks
24618000        27277442        35344452        87239894        5332cd6 vmlinux-4Kbanks

So what I think happens is, the first 128 banks fit within the same
.data section page thus vmlinux doesn't increase.

I guess there might be a .config which could cause that data increase
when the 32->64 banks move won't fit in the last .data page. It depends
on where those ~2K you computed and I snipped, land.

But since most kernels are allmodconfig builds, I guess we should be
fine.

So yeah, I guess we can take this one after you summarize the findings
of this thread in v2's commit message. :-)

Thx.

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