Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/mce: Use mce_prep_record() helpers for apei_smca_report_x86_error()

[Yazen Ghannam]

On 5/29/24 1:28 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:54:34AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
>> Current AMD systems can 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.
> 
> You're explaining the code again. :)
> 

One day I'll break this habit. Thanks again for the reminder. :)

>>  	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>> -		if (cpu_data(cpu).topo.initial_apicid == lapic_id) {
>> -			m.extcpu = cpu;
>> -			m.socketid = cpu_data(m.extcpu).topo.pkg_id;
>> +		if (cpu_data(cpu).topo.initial_apicid == lapic_id)
>>  			break;
>> -		}
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	m.apicid = lapic_id;
>> +	if (!cpu_possible(cpu))
>> +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> What's that test for? You just iterated over the possible CPUs using
> "cpu" as the iterator there...
> 

This is to catch the case where there was no break from the loop.

If there is no match during the iterator, then "cpu" will be equal to
nr_cpu_ids.

I wanted to use a helper that goes with with the iterator rather than
checking against nr_cpu_ids directly.

Thanks,
Yazen