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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/mce: Get rid of machine_check_vector
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:15:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUhDEToGR5C/t0ZY@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5eb3ac0a-4887-08b2-82fa-0348e04ace95@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 09:42:22AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> And, since in the concrete case mca_config just has four bool members
> before the bitfields, we see that the 1-bit bitfields are put within the
> first 8 bytes of the struct, while the __reserved field gets an entire
> u64 all to itself:

I probably should move that into alignment.

> But why the messy mix between 1-bit bitfields and _Bools in the first place?

My intention was to convert those boolean flags into a bitfield.
But you can't convert them all, unfortunately:

In file included from ./include/linux/miscdevice.h:7,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c:14:
./include/linux/device.h:148:64: error: cannot take address of bit-field ‘dont_log_ce’
  148 |   { __ATTR(_name, _mode, device_show_bool, device_store_bool), &(_var) }
      |                                                                ^
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c:2415:8: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEVICE_BOOL_ATTR’
 2415 | static DEVICE_BOOL_ATTR(dont_log_ce, 0644, mca_cfg.dont_log_ce);
      |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:277: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:540: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:540: arch/x86/kernel/cpu] Error 2
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:540: arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:1874: arch/x86] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-17 10:53 [PATCH 0/4] x86/mce: Remove indirect calls Borislav Petkov
2021-09-17 10:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86/mce: Get rid of the mce_severity function pointer Borislav Petkov
2021-09-17 10:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86/mce: Get rid of machine_check_vector Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20  4:57   ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-20  7:42     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-09-20  8:15       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-09-20  8:12     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20 16:04       ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-20 16:32         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-17 10:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Get rid of msr_ops Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20  4:47   ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-20  8:32     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-22 12:16       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-22 13:23         ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-22 13:55           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-22 15:22             ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-22 15:57               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-17 10:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86/mce: Get rid of the ->quirk_no_way_out() indirect call Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20  5:06   ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-20  8:34     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-23 14:51   ` Yazen Ghannam
2021-09-23 15:11     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-24 20:04       ` Yazen Ghannam

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