Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 13/17] EDAC/mc: Add MC unique index allocation procedure

Tony Luck
2022-10-12T20:46:30Z

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 10:33:35PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:01:54PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:

> "A new special MC index is introduced here. It's defined by the
> EDAC_AUTO_MC_NUM macro with a value specifically chosen as the least
> probable value used for the real MC index. In case if the EDAC_AUTO_MC_NUM
> index is specified by the EDAC LLDD, the MC index will be either retrieved
> from the MC device OF-node alias index ("mc[:number:]") or automatically
> generated as the next-free MC index found by the ID allocation procedure."

Just curious.If I have an EDAC driver using EDAC_AUTO_MC_NUM, and I
unload and reload the driver a bunch of times. Do I get the same memory
controller numbers each reload, or get an ever increasing set each time?

-Tony