linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] EDAC, mce_amd: Issue decoded MCE through the tracepoint

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Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:02:54 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] EDAC, mce_amd: Issue decoded MCE through the
 tracepoint

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:47:19PM -0700, mark gross wrote:
> FWIW I this looks fishy in arch independent code. I assume this
> include is for the definition of the mca_cfg global used in the printf
> below.

Yeah, it is a bit ad-hoc. I guess I can add an arch_has_decoder()
wrapper which each arch can define. That would be cleaner.

> do you want to worry about this debugfs interfaces as ABI?
> debugfs changes have bitten me on one specific OS in irritating ways.
> 
> I'm not sure what the word is for debugfs interfaces as ABI these days so this
> feedback may be not so useful.

Yeah, the moment something starts using it, it is ABI. The good thing
about it is, though, that it can get stuff appended to it, just like
tracepoints get fields added. And tools should be able to handle parsing
appended lines fine. Removing lines OTOH is always problematic. But
we'll make that append-only.

Thx!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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