linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 13/20] x86/mce: Unify AMD THR handler with MCA Polling

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Message-ID: <20250903094859.GGaLgPC_eWQgAqpHHb@fat_crate.local>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 11:48:59 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com,
	Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>,
	Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/20] x86/mce: Unify AMD THR handler with MCA Polling

On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 01:25:43PM -0400, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> Also, MCi_STATUS should be cleared as the last step. So it'd be more
> efficient to do any logging/clearing/resetting of an MCA bank all together.

Makes sense.

> I can go back to this idea and make it more abstracted like you suggest.

Yap, that would make the code flow more clear, at least, instead of spreading
all those different MSR clearing calls at the end of _poll().

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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