From: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, yazen.ghannam@amd.com,
Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Simplify CPU vendor checks for AMD/Hygon and Intel/Zhaoxin
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:42:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e638a79-8b2e-291c-3b91-57677ffcc1fa@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YhUK87H4PQ22rpLw@zn.tnic>
Hello,
On 2/22/2022 10:10 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 09:58:58AM -0600, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
>> In a number of places across the MCE subsystem we check if we are running
>> an x86 processor from AMD/Hygon or Intel/Zhaoxin vendors. Simplify these
>> checks with two mce_flags updated at CPU MCE initialization.
>
> ... and what's the point of this silliness?
>
the point is to simplify the code (as the patch stated). Since we have 57
bits reserved but unused, it also wouldn't cost anything.
> Btw, you don't have to send it to my *two* email addresses - one is
> enough. :)
>
Noted.
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-22 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-22 15:58 [PATCH] x86/mce: Simplify CPU vendor checks for AMD/Hygon and Intel/Zhaoxin Carlos Bilbao
2022-02-22 16:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-02-22 16:42 ` Carlos Bilbao [this message]
2022-02-22 17:10 ` Borislav Petkov
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