linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] efi/cper, cxl: Make definitions and structures global

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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 08:30:21 -0800
From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
To: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com>,
	<linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Alison Schofield
	<alison.schofield@...el.com>, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>, "Ira
 Weiny" <ira.weiny@...el.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Yazen Ghannam
	<yazen.ghannam@....com>, Smita Koralahalli
	<Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] efi/cper, cxl: Make definitions and structures global

Smita Koralahalli wrote:
> In preparation to add tracepoint support, move protocol error UUID
> definition to a common location and make CXL RAS capability struct
> global for use across different modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com>

[snip]

> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/cper_cxl.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper_cxl.h
> index 86bfcf7909ec..6f8c00495708 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/cper_cxl.h
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper_cxl.h
> @@ -7,14 +7,11 @@
>   * Author: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com>
>   */
>  
> +#include <linux/cxl-event.h>
> +
>  #ifndef LINUX_CPER_CXL_H
>  #define LINUX_CPER_CXL_H
>  
> -/* CXL Protocol Error Section */
> -#define CPER_SEC_CXL_PROT_ERR						\
> -	GUID_INIT(0x80B9EFB4, 0x52B5, 0x4DE3, 0xA7, 0x77, 0x68, 0x78,	\
> -		  0x4B, 0x77, 0x10, 0x48)
> -
>  #pragma pack(1)
>  
>  /* Compute Express Link Protocol Error Section, UEFI v2.10 sec N.2.13 */
> diff --git a/include/linux/cper.h b/include/linux/cper.h
> index c1a7dc325121..2cbf0a93785a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cper.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cper.h
> @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ enum {
>  #define CPER_NOTIFY_DMAR						\
>  	GUID_INIT(0x667DD791, 0xC6B3, 0x4c27, 0x8A, 0x6B, 0x0F, 0x8E,	\
>  		  0x72, 0x2D, 0xEB, 0x41)
> +/* CXL Protocol Error Section */
> +#define CPER_SEC_CXL_PROT_ERR						\
> +	GUID_INIT(0x80B9EFB4, 0x52B5, 0x4DE3, 0xA7, 0x77, 0x68, 0x78,	\
> +		  0x4B, 0x77, 0x10, 0x48)

Is this shared with code outside of GHES?  I did not need my GUID defines
outside of ghes.c and further becuase the events are defined as UUID's I
chose to keep the GUID definition as local as possible to ghes.c.

Can you do the same with this define?

The rest looks good,
Ira

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