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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/20] x86/mce: Use mce_setup() helpers for apei_smca_report_x86_error()
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On 11/22/2023 1:28 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 01:32:31PM -0600, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
>> Current AMD systems may report MCA errors using the ACPI Boot Error
>> Record Table (BERT). The BERT entries for MCA errors will be an x86
>> Common Platform Error Record (CPER) with an MSR register context that
>> matches the MCAX/SMCA register space.
>>
>> However, the BERT will not necessarily be processed on the CPU that
>> reported the MCA errors. Therefore, the correct CPU number needs to be
>> determined and the information saved in struct mce.
>>
>> The CPU number is determined by searching all possible CPUs for a Local
>> APIC ID matching the value in the x86 CPER.
>
> Those below are explaining what the patch does. Not needed here.
>

Okay, will remove them.

>> Set up the MCA record after searching for a CPU number. If no possible
>> CPU was found, then return early.
>>
>> Gather the global MCA information first, save the found CPU number, then
>> gather the per-CPU information.
>

Thanks,
Yazen

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