From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>,
"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] AMD64 EDAC fixes
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 17:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190823153739.GC28379@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR12MB263989CCDCC0F74138B6B747F8A40@SN6PR12MB2639.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 03:28:59PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> Boris, Do you think it'd be appropriate to change the return values
> for some cases?
>
> For example, ECC disabled is a hardware configuration. This doesn't
> mean that the module failed any operations in this case.
>
> In other words, the module checks for a feature. If the feature is not
> present, then return without failure (and maybe give a message).
That makes sense but AFAICT if probe_one_instance() sees that ECC is not
enabled, it returns 0.
The "if (!edac_has_mcs())" check later is to verify that at least once
instance was loaded successfully and, if not, then return an error.
So where does it return failure?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-23 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 23:59 [PATCH v3 0/8] AMD64 EDAC fixes Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-21 23:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] EDAC/amd64: Support more than two controllers for chip selects handling Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-21 23:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] EDAC/amd64: Recognize DRAM device type with EDAC_CTL_CAP Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-21 23:59 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] EDAC/amd64: Initialize DIMM info for systems with more than two channels Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-21 23:59 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] EDAC/amd64: Find Chip Select memory size using Address Mask Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 0:00 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] EDAC/amd64: Decode syndrome before translating address Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 0:00 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] EDAC/amd64: Cache secondary Chip Select registers Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 0:00 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] EDAC/amd64: Support Asymmetric Dual-Rank DIMMs Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-23 11:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-23 13:27 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-23 15:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/10] EDAC/amd64: Gather hardware information early Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-29 9:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-09-06 19:14 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-09-06 20:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-09-06 20:49 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-09-09 15:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 09/10] EDAC/amd64: Use cached data when checking for ECC Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 0:00 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/10] EDAC/amd64: Check for memory before fully initializing an instance Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 18:51 ` [RFC PATCH v2] " Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 0:50 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] AMD64 EDAC fixes Adam Borowski
2019-08-22 8:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 9:46 ` Adam Borowski
2019-08-22 9:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 18:54 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-23 15:28 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-23 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-08-26 14:19 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-26 14:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-26 15:05 ` Ghannam, Yazen
2019-08-22 18:48 ` [RFC PATCH v2] EDAC/amd64: Check for memory before fully initializing an instance Ghannam, Yazen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20190823153739.GC28379@zn.tnic \
--to=bp@alien8.de \
--cc=Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com \
--cc=kilobyte@angband.pl \
--cc=linux-edac@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox