Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add scan test support

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, May 06 2022 at 15:54, Tony Luck wrote:
> From: Jithu Joseph <jithu.joseph@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In a core, the scan engine is shared between sibling cpus.
>
> When a Scan test (for a particular core) is triggered by the user,
> the scan chunks are executed on all the threads on the core using
> stop_core_cpuslocked.
>
> Scan may be aborted by some reasons. Scan test will be aborted in certain
> circumstances such as when interrupt occurred or cpu does not have enough
> power budget for scan. In this case, the kernel restart scan from the chunk
> where it stopped. Scan will also be aborted when the test is failed. In
> this case, the test is immediately stopped without retry.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jithu Joseph <jithu.joseph@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>