linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized block

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 14:05:39 +0000
From:   "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CC:     Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized
 block

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 9:44 AM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
> Cc: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de>; linux-
> edac@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; tony.luck@...el.com;
> x86@...nel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized
> block
> 
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:04:19PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
...
> 
> I check PFEH is enabled how?
> 

If MISC0 is RAZ then you can assume PFEH is enabled. There should be a BIOS
option to disable it.

BTW, I just tried you patch with PFEH disabled and it seems to work fine.

...
> > Since we're caching the values during init, we can drop all the
> > *_on_cpu() calls. What do you think?
> 
> Well, if they're all the same on all CPUs, sure. That's your call.
> 

Let's drop them. We won't need them since we're caching the values during
init. And the init code is run on the target CPU.

We can just make smca_bank_addrs[][] into per_cpu when we need to support
different values on different CPUs.

Thanks,
Yazen