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

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Message-ID: <20180208152642.GF7964@pd.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 8 Feb 2018 16:26:42 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
Cc:     linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bp@...e.de, tony.luck@...el.com, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized
 block

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:48:13PM -0600, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> 
> The block address is saved after the block is initialized when
> threshold_init_device() is called.
> 
> Use the saved block address, if available, rather than trying to
> rediscover it.
> 
> We can avoid some *on_cpu() calls in the init path that will cause a
> call trace when resuming from suspend.

Ditto.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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