linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] x86/mce: Define function to extract ErrorAddr from MCA

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Message-ID: <YkoHKTuGaFfsF6qb@zn.tnic>
Date:   Sun, 3 Apr 2022 22:44:25 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] x86/mce: Define function to extract ErrorAddr
 from MCA_ADDR

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> How is __always_inline supposed to work across compilation units w/o
> LTO? The callsite is in core.c ...

Hmm, right.

So even with patch 3 adding more changes to that function I think it is
still simple enough so that we can move it up into the mce/internal.h
header so that the inlining can work.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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