linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Streamline MCE subsystem's naming

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Message-ID: <20181206162703.GA119163@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:27:03 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Streamline MCE subsystem's naming


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 07:01:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Oh - I thought we'd have arch/x86/mce/ or so?
> > 
> > There's machine check events that are not tied to any particular CPU, 
> > correct? So this would be the right conceptual level - and it would also 
> > remove the somewhat redundant 'kernel' part.
> 
> Well, all the MCE events reported are some way or the other tied to the
> CPU and they're reported in the CPU's MCA banks so I think we want
> 
> 	arch/x86/cpu/mce/

Well, *everything* the kernel does is in some way connected to a CPU, 
because we always execute the kernel on a CPU, still we have things like 
discrete PMUs and abstractions for other pieces of hardware that are not 
per CPU.

So the real question is, is there a signifcant class of MCE events that 
are not tied to the reporting channel which is per CPU (-ish ...) MCA 
banks?

Thanks,

	Ingo