Re: [PATCH 03/20] x86/mce: Use mce_setup() helpers for apei_smca_report_x86_error()

[Yazen Ghannam]

On 11/22/2023 1:28 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 01:32:31PM -0600, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> > Current AMD systems may report MCA errors using the ACPI Boot Error
> > Record Table (BERT). The BERT entries for MCA errors will be an x86
> > Common Platform Error Record (CPER) with an MSR register context that
> > matches the MCAX/SMCA register space.
> >
> > However, the BERT will not necessarily be processed on the CPU that
> > reported the MCA errors. Therefore, the correct CPU number needs to be
> > determined and the information saved in struct mce.
> >
> > The CPU number is determined by searching all possible CPUs for a Local
> > APIC ID matching the value in the x86 CPER.
>
> Those below are explaining what the patch does. Not needed here.

Okay, will remove them.

> > Set up the MCA record after searching for a CPU number. If no possible
> > CPU was found, then return early.
> >
> > Gather the global MCA information first, save the found CPU number, then
> > gather the per-CPU information.

Thanks,
Yazen