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Message-ID: <e65fd961-529e-d479-a269-10267596ec86@amd.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:06:06 +0000
From:   S@...r.kernel.org
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "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 1/17/2019 12:55 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.
Understood.
>>   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

Thanks for the support, i shall follow the practice from next patch onwards.

Regards,

Shirish S

> Thx.
>
-- 
Regards,
Shirish S