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Message-ID: <20190116192502.GJ15409@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:25:02 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "S, Shirish" <Shirish.S@....com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "maintainer : X86 ARCHITECTURE" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        "open list : X86 ARCHITECTURE" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mce/amd: carve out MC4_MISC thresholding quirk

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 03:10:40PM +0000, S, Shirish wrote:
> MC4_MISC thresholding quirk needs to be applied during S5 -> S0 and
> S3 -> S0 state transitions, which follow different code paths, hence
> carve it out and move it mce_amd_feature_init(), which is  the converging
> point of both code paths.
> 
> Changelog[v2]:
>  - move the quirk to mce/amd.c

For future reference: changelog lines ...

> Signed-off-by: Shirish S <shirish.s@....com>
> ---

... land below this line so that they are not part of the commit
message.

>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c  | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 29 -----------------------------
>  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
> index 89298c8..f6a5c96 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
> @@ -545,6 +545,33 @@ prepare_threshold_block(unsigned int bank, unsigned int block, u32 addr,
>  	return offset;
>  }
>  
> +void mc4_misc_thresholding_quirk(void)

Functions should have a verb in their names.

I've fixed those and other issues now but make sure you take a look at
those nice documents here, for future reference, when preparing other
patches:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/index.html

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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