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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
	Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/MCE, EDAC/mce_amd: Add support for new MCA_SYND{1,2} registers
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:57:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YtUgb2Y/H/Wq9yIn@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsxefXQDCiJ1zxLG@yaz-fattaah>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 05:31:41PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> Is your concern specifically on growing/changing struct mce, or is it more
> about limiting info sent to userspace?

Well, both, kinda.

> If it's the former, then I've been thinking it would be good to introduce a
> new internal "struct mce_ext" that includes struct mce plus other things. This
> way struct mce can still be uapi, and things like mcelog can use it. And at
> the same time we can new data used in the kernel or shared through
> tracepoints.
> 
> /* Extended MCE structure */
> struct mce_ext {
> 	struct mce *m;
> 	/* new stuff here */
> };
> 
> What do you think?

The moment you make it part of a trace record, it practically becomes
ABI.

So we could have some opaque blob which is called vendor-specific data
and which is dumped raw to userspace, without any specification to its
format so that luserspace doesn't get any ideas...

Lemme talk to rostedt.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-18  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-18 17:44 [PATCH 0/3] New SMCA Syndrome registers and FRU Text feature Yazen Ghannam
2022-04-18 17:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/MCE, EDAC/mce_amd: Add support for new MCA_SYND{1,2} registers Yazen Ghannam
2022-06-30 11:01   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-11 17:31     ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-07-18  8:57       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2022-07-18 13:50         ` Borislav Petkov
2022-08-02 12:22           ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-08-02 16:58             ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-24 16:09             ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-24 16:38               ` Tony Luck
2022-10-24 20:30                 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-24 21:08                   ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-24 21:23                     ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-24 21:32                       ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-24 21:52                         ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-25 16:35                           ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-10-25 16:46                             ` Luck, Tony
2022-10-25 18:05                             ` Borislav Petkov
2022-10-25 19:28                               ` Steven Rostedt
2022-11-01 17:27                                 ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-04-18 17:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/MCE/APEI: Handle variable register array size Yazen Ghannam
2022-07-03 12:30   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-11 17:32     ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-04-18 17:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] EDAC/mce_amd: Add support for FRU Text in MCA Yazen Ghannam
2022-07-04  9:13   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-11 17:41     ` Yazen Ghannam
2022-06-10 16:29 ` [PATCH 0/3] New SMCA Syndrome registers and FRU Text feature Yazen Ghannam

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