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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: 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: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:57:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUgUpXHciLMn4X20@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210917105355.2368-3-bp@alien8.de>

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:53:53PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> @@ -126,7 +123,9 @@ struct mca_config {
>  	      ser			: 1,
>  	      recovery			: 1,
>  	      bios_cmci_threshold	: 1,
> -	      __reserved		: 59;
> +	      /* Proper #MC exception handler is set */
> +	      initialized		: 1,
> +	      __reserved		: 58;

Does this __reserved field do anything useful? It seems to
just be an annoyance that must be updated each time a new
bit is added. Surely the compiler will see that these bitfields
are in a "u64" and do the math and skip to the right boundary
without this.

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20  4:57 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 [this message]
2021-09-20  7:42     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-09-20  8:15       ` Borislav Petkov
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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