Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MCE: consolidate AMD initialization

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/29/12 11:49, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 29.10.12 at 11:32, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 10/29/12 11:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 29.10.12 at 11:03, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 10/29/12 10:48, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 26.10.12 at 10:26, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/26/12 10:25, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Move AMD specific initialization to AMD files.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's do this properly: There's no K7 supporting 64-bit mode afaict,
>>>>> so rather than moving around the call to amd_k7_mcheck_init()
>>>>> can't we just drop it and the whole (inconsistently named) k7.c file?
>>>>
>>>> I think it is better to apply this first and then remove k7 to
>>>> simplify backporting if needed/wanted.
>>>
>>> I'm not seeing these changes as backporting candidates.
>>
>> I had SLES in mind.
>>
>>>>> Also (not in this patch of course), I'd prefer mce_amd_quirks.c
>>>>> to get merged into mce_amd.c now that we have the latter.
>>>>
>>>> After some thinking is there some good reason to do this?
>>>
>>> Imo it had been there simply because there was no mce_amd.c at
>>> the time it got introduced (and afaics it should nevertheless have
>>> been named mce_amd.c from the beginning).
>>
>> I have a patch ready that removes k7 support which is on top of this
>> init cleanup patch.
>> I also have a patch which merges mce_amd_quirks into mce_amd.c on
>> top of the k7 removal.
>> In which order do you want them?
> 
> Okay, if you got them done already, let's go with the order you
> have.

Patches sent.

Christoph


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