linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/21] EDAC, ghes: Remove pvt->detail

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Message-ID: <7017c91e-8923-c8d2-26ca-875328ab855a@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 16:13:20 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/21] EDAC, ghes: Remove pvt->detail_location string

Hi Robert,

On 29/05/2019 09:44, Robert Richter wrote:
> The detail_location[] string in struct ghes_edac_pvt is complete
> useless and data is just copied around. Put everything into
> e->other_detail from the beginning.

We still print all that complete-useless detail_location stuff... so this commit message
had me confused about what you're doing here. I think you meant the space for the string,
instead of the value!

| detail_location[] is used to collect two location strings so they can be passed as one
| to trace_mc_event(). Instead of having an extra copy step, assemble the location string
| in other_detail[] from the beginning.


> diff --git a/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c b/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
> index 39702bac5eaf..c18f16bc9e4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c
> @@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ struct ghes_edac_pvt {
>  	struct mem_ctl_info *mci;
>  
>  	/* Buffers for the error handling routine */
> -	char detail_location[240];
> -	char other_detail[160];
> +	char other_detail[400];
>  	char msg[80];
>  };
>  
> @@ -225,13 +224,14 @@ void ghes_edac_report_mem_error(int sev, struct cper_sec_mem_err *mem_err)
>  	memset(e, 0, sizeof (*e));
>  	e->error_count = 1;
>  	strcpy(e->label, "unknown label");
> -	e->msg = pvt->msg;
> -	e->other_detail = pvt->other_detail;
>  	e->top_layer = -1;
>  	e->mid_layer = -1;
>  	e->low_layer = -1;
> -	*pvt->other_detail = '\0';
> +	e->msg = pvt->msg;
> +	e->other_detail = pvt->other_detail;
> +
>  	*pvt->msg = '\0';
> +	*pvt->other_detail = '\0';

... so no change? Could you drop this hunk?

Regardless,
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>


Thanks,

James