In an attempt to help folks not very familiar with the code to
understand what the code is doing, adding a bit of helper
comments around some more important functions in the driver
to describe them.
No functional change is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrish...@amd.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
index 4bdc836..d2b6001 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ static int lvt_off_valid(struct threshold_block *b, int
apic, u32 lo, u32 hi)
};
/*
+ * Set the error_count and interrupt_enable sysfs attributes here.
+ * This function gets called during the init phase and when someone
+ * makes changes to either of the sysfs attributes.
+ * During init phase, we also program Interrupt type as 'APIC' and
+ * verify if LVT offset obtained from MCx_MISC is valid.
* Called via smp_call_function_single(), must be called with correct
* cpu affinity.
*/
@@ -262,6 +267,11 @@ static int setup_APIC_deferred_error(int reserved, int new)
return reserved;
}
+/*
+ * Obtain LVT offset from MSR_CU_DEF_ERR and call
+ * setup_APIC_deferred_error() to program relevant APIC register.
+ * Also, register a deferred error interrupt handler
+ */
static void deferred_error_interrupt_enable(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
u32 low = 0, high = 0;
@@ -338,6 +348,14 @@ nextaddr_out:
return addr;
}
+/*
+ * struct threshold_block descriptor tracks useful info regarding the
+ * banks' MISC register. Among other things, it tracks whether interrupt
+ * is possible for the given bank, the threshold limit and the sysfs object
+ * that outputs these info. Initializing the struct here, programming
+ * LVT offset for threshold interrupts and registering a interrupt handler
+ * if we haven't already done so
+ */
static int
prepare_threshold_block(unsigned int bank, unsigned int block, u32 addr,
int offset, u32 misc_high)
@@ -673,6 +691,9 @@ static struct kobj_type threshold_ktype = {
.default_attrs = default_attrs,
};
+/*
+ * Initializing sysfs entries for each block within the MCA bank
+ */
static int allocate_threshold_blocks(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank,
unsigned int block, u32 address)
{
--
2.7.0
