linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/mce, PCI: Provide quirks to identify Xeon models with machine check recovery

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFweMO6=K1Oyw_i0duRgZ2ushAqyCKLsyZ9Ou7X9zDrAhA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:36:23 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Boris Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/mce, PCI: Provide quirks to identify Xeon models
 with machine check recovery

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>
> Shouldn't all that stuff below be in arch/x86/?
>
> arch/x86/pci/fixup.c maybe, for example?

Good catch.

As it's under a CONFIG_X86_64 test anyway, it looks to make a ton more
sense in the x86 pci fixup code.

                  Linus