linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 07/16] x86/mce/amd: Simplify DFR handler setup

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Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 16:37:55 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Robert Richter <rrichter@....com>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <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 07/16] x86/mce/amd: Simplify DFR handler setup

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:48:34PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> The general approach to use the preprogrammed offsets looks good to
> me. Though, existing code [1] checks the offset and reapplies a
> hardcoded value of 2 if it is zero. I don't know the history of
> this. However, it would be great if that code could be simplified.

Whatever we do, the best approach is to leave old hw as it is - you
don't want to "rework" all this and break some obscure old configuration
which only one user has and debugging on it is hard, to say the least.

So for everyone's sake, do a cutoff at Zen, leave the pre-Zen machines
support as it is and go wild with Zen and SMCA and so on, where we can
still test on all kinds of hw.

And as always, ask yourself whether any "simplification" you're thinking
of, is even worth the effort and is not just code churn without any real
advantages.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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