linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] efi: Decode UEFI-defined IA32/X64 Error Structure GUIDs

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Message-ID: <20180227143020.GG26382@pd.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:30:20 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
Cc:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] efi: Decode UEFI-defined IA32/X64 Error Structure
 GUIDs

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 01:39:00PM -0600, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> @@ -45,6 +81,11 @@ void cper_print_proc_ia(const char *pfx, const struct cper_sec_proc_ia *proc)
>  		printk("%sError Structure Type: %pUl\n", newpfx,
>  		       &err_info->err_type);
>  
> +		err_type = cper_get_err_type(&err_info->err_type);
> +		printk("%sError Structure Type: %s\n", newpfx,
> +		       err_type < ARRAY_SIZE(cper_proc_error_type_strs) ?
> +		       cper_proc_error_type_strs[err_type] : "unknown");

Ah, there it is, much better. Now this tells us what component it is.

So cper-arm.c does the same thing and there's a similar thing in cper.c -
cper_print_proc_generic().

Let's not tri-plicate that code pls and have a generic function instead.

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    Boris.

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