linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] EDAC/amd64: Support more than two Controllers for Chip Select handling

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Message-ID: <20190226132416.GE14836@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:24:16 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
Cc:     "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] EDAC/amd64: Support more than two Controllers for
 Chip Select handling

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:26:09PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> 
> The struct chip_select array that's used for saving Chip Select bases
> and masks is fixed at length of two. There should be one struct
> chip_select for each controller, so this array should be increased to
> support systems that may have more than two controllers.
> 
> Increase the size of the struct chip_select array to eight, which is the
> largest number of controllers per die currently supported on AMD
> systems.
> 
> Also, carve out the Fam17h+ reading of the bases/masks into a separate
> function. This effectively reverts the original bases/masks reading code
> to pre-Fam17h support.

I like it simpler again. :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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