Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] EDAC/ghes: Add notifier to report ghes_edac mem error

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	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>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.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, toshi.kani@hpe.com, nd@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] EDAC/ghes: Add notifier to report ghes_edac mem error
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:42:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yv5dzyiI1TPtAO5F@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220817143458.335938-3-justin.he@arm.com>

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 02:34:53PM +0000, Jia He wrote:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] EDAC/ghes: Add notifier to report ghes_edac mem error

Subject: ...: Add a notifier for reporting memory errors.

> To modularize ghes_edac driver, any ghes_edac codes should not be invoked

s/modularize/make a proper module/

and replace that everywhere.

There's no such thing as "codes" - please try to write proper English.

> in ghes. Add a notifier of registering the ghes_edac_report_mem_error() to
> resolve the build dependency.

"Add a notifier for reporting memory errors."

When you say "to resolve the build dependency" it sounds like this is
some kind of a nuisance. But it isn't one - it is simply an improvement.

> The atomic notifier is used because
> ghes_proc_in_irq() can be in the irq context.

"Use an atomic notifier because calls sites like ghes_proc_in_irq() run
in interrupt context."

> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>  include/acpi/ghes.h      | 10 +++-------
>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Patch itself looks ok.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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