From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tony.luck@intel.com, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD, EDAC/mce_amd: Remove struct smca_hwid.xec_bitmap
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:40:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200817093956.GC549@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200720145353.43924-1-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
>
> The Extended Error Code Bitmap (xec_bitmap) for a Scalable MCA bank type
> was intended to be used by the kernel to filter out invalid error codes
> on a system. However, this is unnecessary because the hardware will only
> report valid error codes.
That's a kinda bold statement. :)
Are you saying, you wanna trust verification and that check is totally
useless?
Or is there another reason for removing it?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-17 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-20 14:53 [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD, EDAC/mce_amd: Remove struct smca_hwid.xec_bitmap Yazen Ghannam
2020-08-17 9:40 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-08-17 15:18 ` Yazen Ghannam
2020-08-18 10:13 ` Borislav Petkov
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