linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] EDAC/amd64: Merge error injection sysfs facilities

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Message-ID: <20201215185808.GE9817@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:58:08 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc:     linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] EDAC/amd64: Merge error injection sysfs facilities

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:11:20AM -0600, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> Can we say "Opterons (Family 10h to Family 15h)"? It may also apply to
> Family 16h, but I don't know if they were branded as Opterons.
> 
> The injection code in this module doesn't apply to Family 17h and later.
> 
> Also, Family 17h and later doesn't allow the OS direct access to the error
> injection registers. They're locked down by security policy, etc.

Yeah, figured as much after I started getting all 0s while poking at
them with setpci...

Ok, I'll fix that ontop - this patch should be only code movement and
trivial cleanups, functionality changes ontop.

> Related to the comment above, can this be changed to the following?
> 
> 	if (pvt->fam < 0x10 || pvt->fam >= 0x17)

Right.

> Everything else looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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