> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Borislav Petkov > Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:50 PM > To: Luck, Tony <[email protected]> > Cc: Ghannam, Yazen <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 4/5] x86/MCE: Make number of MCA banks per_cpu > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:42:36PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > > Actually, it should not be exported at all. A function returning the num > > > banks is better instead. > > > > Are all the places it is used in non-pre-emptible sections of code? Looping > > in the CMCI and #MC handlers should be fine. But do we need > > get_cpu()/put_cpu() > > in any places? > > That export is needed only in the mce injector. Actually, it would be > much cleaner if the injector would find out the count straight from the > MSR as it does now, but be changed to do rdmsr_on_cpu() now, since can > have different num_banks on a CPU. >
Okay, so drop the export and leave the injector code as-is (it's already doing a rdmsrl_on_cpu()). Is that okay? Thanks, Yazen
