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

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Message-ID: <f2acc860-f227-4ca4-af74-8aeebb84c163@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:22:45 -0400
From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: yazen.ghannam@....com, 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 4/29/2024 8:38 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.
> 

Okay, will do.

Thanks,
Yazen