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Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:36:09 +0200
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>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] x86/MCE: Make number of MCA banks per_cpu

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 08:18:03PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> 
> The number of MCA banks is provided per logical CPU. Historically, this
> number has been the same across all CPUs, but this is not an
> architectural guarantee. Future AMD systems may have MCA bank counts
> that vary between logical CPUs in a system.
> 
> This issue was partially addressed in
> 
> commit ("006c077041dc x86/mce: Handle varying MCA bank counts")

Add that to your .gitconfig:

[alias]
        one = show -s --pretty='format:%h (\"%s\")'

so that you can quote commits properly:

$ git one 006c077041dc73b9490fffc4c6af5befe0687110
006c077041dc ("x86/mce: Handle varying MCA bank counts")

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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