Smita,
pls sync the time of the box where you create the patch:
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 09:04:44 -0500
but your mail headers have:
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 07:07:17PM +0900, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> I know Boris asked you to add the reason for the Reported-by, but
> usually we don't track version differences in the committed patch.
>
> Boris, can you confirm if you want the Reported-by to be retained?
How else would you explain what the Reported-by: tag is for on a patch
which adds a feature?
> > + * The first expected register in the register layout of MCAX address space.
> > + * The address defined must match with the first MSR address extracted from
> > + * BERT which in SMCA systems is the bank's MCA_STATUS register.
> > + *
> > + * Note that the decoding of the raw MSR values in BERT is implementation
> > + * specific and follows register offset order of MCAX address space.
> > + */
> > +#define MASK_MCA_STATUS 0xC0002001
>
> The macro value is already defined in mce.h as
> MSR_AMD64_SMCA_MC0_STATUS. Is there any reason to not use it?
Good point.
> You can move the comment to where you check the status register.
No need if he really wants to use the first MCi_STATUS address.
> > + m.apicid = lapic_id;
> > + m.bank = (ctx_info->msr_addr >> 4) & 0xFF;
> > + m.status = *i_mce;
> > + m.addr = *(i_mce + 1);
> > + m.misc = *(i_mce + 2);
> > + /* Skipping MCA_CONFIG */
> > + m.ipid = *(i_mce + 4);
> > + m.synd = *(i_mce + 5);
>
> Instead of using the raw pointer arithmetic, it is better to define a
> structure for the MCA registers? Something like -
>
> struct {
> u64 addr;
> u64 misc;
> u64 config;
> u64 ipid;
> ...
> }
>
> Checking back, this was mentioned in the previous review comments as
> well. Please address all comments before posting a new version - either
> by following the suggestion or explaining why it is not a good idea.
Well, that was addressed in his reply last time:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a28aa613-8353-0052-31f6-34bc733abf59@xxxxxxx
You might've missed it because you weren't CCed directly.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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