Re: [PATCH v5] x86/mce: retrieve poison range from hardware

[Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>]

On 8/1/2022 8:58 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> 	struct mce m;
>> +	int lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
> 
> Some maintainers like to order local declaration lines from longest to shortest
>   
>> +     /*
>> +      * Even if the ->validation_bits are set for address mask,
>> +      * to be extra safe, check and reject an error radius '0',
>> +      * and fallback to the default page size.
>> +      */
>> +     if (mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA_MASK) {
>> +             lsb = __ffs64(mem_err->physical_addr_mask);
>> +             if (lsb == 1)
>> +                     lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +     }
> 
> 
> The comment above __ffs64() says:
> 
> * The result is not defined if no bits are set, so check that @word
>   * is non-zero before calling this.
> 
> So if the intent is "extra safe" should check for that:
> 
>          if (mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA_MASK &&
>              mem_err->physical_addr_mask) {
>                  lsb = __ffs64(mem_err->physical_addr_mask);
>                  if (lsb == 1)
>                          lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
>          }

Indeed, thanks a lot!

-jane


> 
> -Tony
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