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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, bp@amd64.org,
	gong.chen@linux.intel.com, ananth@in.ibm.com, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, gregkh@suse.de, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mce: Pack boolean MCE flags into a structure
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:15:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346865322.1906.7.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120905102201.9423.46671.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 15:52 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Many MCE flags are boolean in nature, but are declared as integers
> currently. We can pack these into a bitfield to save some space.
[]
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h
[]
> @@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ enum severity_level {
>  	MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY,
>  };
>  
> +struct mce_config {
> +	__u32	cmci_disabled		: 1,
> +		ignore_ce		: 1,
> +		dont_log_ce		: 1,
> +		__pad			: 29;

You don't need to declare __pad
Perhaps bool:1 instead.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-05 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-05 10:21 [PATCH 0/3] x86:mce: Some cleanups and bios-set CMCI thresholds Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-05 10:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mce: Make sysfs tunables available globally across all cpus Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-05 10:32   ` [PATCH] [mcelog] Start using the new sysfs tunables location Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-05 18:47     ` Andi Kleen
2012-09-05 19:09       ` Tony Luck
2012-09-06  6:40         ` Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-06 12:28         ` Andi Kleen
2012-09-06 12:34           ` Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-06 12:51             ` Alan Cox
2012-09-06 13:21             ` Andi Kleen
2012-09-05 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mce: Pack boolean MCE flags into a structure Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-05 17:15   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-09-05 18:56   ` Tony Luck
2012-09-06  6:48     ` Naveen N. Rao
2012-09-06 12:15       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-05 10:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/mce: Honour bios-set CMCI threshold Naveen N. Rao

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