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From: "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
To: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
	Robert Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>,
	Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>,
	Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>,
	Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>,
	Khuong Dinh <khuong@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@acpica.org" <devel@acpica.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"nd@arm.com" <nd@arm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 5/8] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 17:13:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM4PR84MB1853F07391E61292D4119F21827A9@DM4PR84MB1853.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220831074027.13849-6-justin.he@arm.com>

On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 1:40 AM, Jia He wrote:
> @@ -454,7 +437,7 @@ int ghes_edac_register(struct ghes *ghes, struct
> device *dev)
>  		pr_info("This system has a very crappy BIOS: It doesn't even
> list the DIMMS.\n");
>  		pr_info("Its SMBIOS info is wrong. It is doubtful that the error
> report would\n");
>  		pr_info("work on such system. Use this driver with
> caution\n");
> -	} else if (idx < 0) {
> +	} else if (ghes_edac_force_load) {

This change causes the following messages to start showing up on Arm.
Is that what you intend to do?

The messages can be avoided by not setting the force flag on Arm unconditionally.
This will need some change to the flag check in ghes_edac_unregister() though.

>  		pr_info("This EDAC driver relies on BIOS to enumerate
> memory and get error reports.\n");
>  		pr_info("Unfortunately, not all BIOSes reflect the memory
> layout correctly.\n");
>  		pr_info("So, the end result of using this driver varies from
> vendor to vendor.\n");

 Toshi

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-02 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-31  7:40 [PATCH v4 0/8] Make ghes_edac a proper module Jia He
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] efi/cper: export several helpers for ghes_edac to use Jia He
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] EDAC/ghes: Add a notifier for reporting memory errors Jia He
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] EDAC:ghes: Move ghes_edac.force_load to ghes module parameter Jia He
2022-09-02 14:54   ` Kani, Toshi
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] ghes: Introduce a helper ghes_edac_preferred() Jia He
2022-09-02 15:30   ` Kani, Toshi
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes Jia He
2022-09-02 17:13   ` Kani, Toshi [this message]
2022-09-05 14:33     ` Justin He
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] EDAC: Add the ghes_edac_preferred check for chipset-specific edac drivers Jia He
2022-09-02 15:48   ` Kani, Toshi
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] apei/ghes: Use unrcu_pointer for cmpxchg Jia He
2022-08-31  7:40 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] EDAC/igen6: Return consistent errno when another edac driver is enabled Jia He

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