linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/mce: Get rid of the ->quirk_no_way

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Date:   Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:06:03 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/mce: Get rid of the ->quirk_no_way_out()
 indirect call

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:53:55PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> @@ -1793,7 +1791,7 @@ static int __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>  			cfg->bootlog = 0;
>  
>  		if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 45)
> -			quirk_no_way_out = quirk_sandybridge_ifu;
> +			mce_flags.snb_ifu_quirk = 1;
>  	}

Someday all these tests for random vendor/family/model/stepping could be
refactored into a x86_match_cpu() lookup table (now that x86_match_cpu
can handle steppings). But that's a topic for a different patch series.

-Tony