linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 07/24] EDAC/amd64: Define function to dehash address

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:01:21 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc:     linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mchehab@...nel.org, tony.luck@...el.com, james.morse@....com,
        rric@...nel.org, Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/24] EDAC/amd64: Define function to dehash address

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:50:06PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> But I can do something like you suggest. There will be an unconditional call
> to dehash_addr(). Helper functions will be called for specific interleave
> modes. Otherwise, it'll return 0 if hashing isn't used.

That sounds like proper design to me. A single function which dehashes
an address and that's the only thing it does but it takes care of all
possible cases.

Yap. :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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