Re: [EDAC PATCH v13 1/7] edac: Create a dimm struct and move the labels into it

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:12:07PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The way a DIMM is currently represented implies that they're
> linked into a per-csrow struct. However, some drivers don't see
> csrows, as they're ridden behind some chip like the AMB's
> on FBDIMM's, for example.
> 
> This forced drivers to fake^Wvirtualize a csrow struct, and to create
> a mess under csrow/channel original's concept.
> 
> Move the DIMM labels into a per-DIMM struct, and add there
> the real location of the socket, in terms of csrow/channel.
> Latter patches will modify the location to properly represent the
> memory architecture.
> 
> All other drivers will use a per-csrow type of location.
> Some of those drivers will require a latter conversion, as
> they also fake the csrows internally.
> 
> TODO: While this patch doesn't change the existing behavior, on
> csrows-based memory controllers, a csrow/channel pair points to a memory
> rank. There's a known bug at the EDAC core that allows having different
> labels for the same DIMM, if it has more than one rank. A latter patch
> is need to merge the several ranks for a DIMM into the same dimm_info
> struct, in order to avoid having different labels for the same DIMM.
> 
> The edac_mc_alloc() will now contain a per-dimm initialization loop that
> will be changed by latter patches in order to match other types of
> memory architectures.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com>
> Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Ranganathan Desikan <ravi@jetztechnologies.com>
> Cc: "Arvind R." <arvino55@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund@ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

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