linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/16] x86/mce/amd: Prep DFR handler before enabling banks

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Message-ID: <20240429123818.GCZi-UugM5_UFHm7es@fat_crate.local>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:38:18 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc: linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, x86@...nel.org, Avadhut.Naik@....com,
	John.Allen@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/16] x86/mce/amd: Prep DFR handler before enabling
 banks

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:31:58AM -0400, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> They are independent features. SUCCOR is the feature that defines the deferred
> error interrupt and data poisoning. This predates SMCA. SUCCOR was introduced
> in the later Family 15h systems.

.. and as we've established, it is not really enabled on them for
whatever reason so for simplicity's sake, we'll simply assume that it
was enabled together with SMCA and that would simplify a lot of things
in the code.

Please put that in the commit message so that we know.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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