Re: [PATCH] EDAC/mce_amd: Reduce unnecessary spew in dmesg if SMCA feature bit is not exposed

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> How about adding the the SMCA feature to the amd64_cpuids[] table in
> amd64_edac.c?
> 
> We can use X86_MATCH_VENDOR_FEATURE to match on AMD (and Hygon) systems
> with SMCA. And we can remove the X86_MATCH_VENDOR_FAM entries for
> families 17h-19h.

Sure. That'll alleviate the need to add new families which support SMCA
too.

> I'm assuming the issue is that amd64_edac_mod is autoloading due to the
> family-based device table, and this will load edac_mce_amd as a
> dependency.

Is it?

We have

early_initcall(mce_amd_init);

in mce_amd.c which attempts to load this thing unconditionally.

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