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SubjectRE: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Don't report L1 BTB MCA errors on some Family 17h models
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-edac-owner@vger.kernel.org <linux-edac-owner@vger.kernel.org> On Behalf Of Borislav Petkov
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:32 PM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
> Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; tony.luck@intel.com; x86@kernel.org; rafal@milecki.pl;
> clemej@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Don't report L1 BTB MCA errors on some Family 17h models
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:24:01PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> > Generally, the model groups share the same hardware design and so the
> > same quirks. So I'm thinking that it'd be more efficient to have a
> > filter function that targets a specific group of models rather than
> > one that checks all known quirks on all models.
>
> Or simply start with a amd_filter_mce() function and when it grows big
> and unwieldy, only *then* start thinking about splitting it into models
> and families. For now, you're fine with a single AMD-specific function.
>

Understood.

> > Most of the quirks are dealt with at init time, but this needs be to
> > done during run time for each MCE that is logged. So I didn't want to
> > add unnecessary checks to the MCE handlers. We have quirk_no_way_out()
> > that does something similar.
>
> I don't think a couple of instructions checking vendor and family would
> be at all noticeable so let's start simple.
>

Okay, will do.

Thanks,
Yazen
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