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SubjectRE: [PATCH 1/3] EDAC/amd64: Print ECC enabled/disabled for nodes with enabled MCs
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:44 AM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
> Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] EDAC/amd64: Print ECC enabled/disabled for nodes
> with enabled MCs
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 02:38:11PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> > In either of those cases we won't get to debug_display_dimm_sizes*
> > because we won't initialize the instance.
>
> So you move that code which accesses csrows up so that it has the
> required information to query DIMM state/presence.
>

I don't think we need to look at the csrows. We just need to check if the
controller is enabled or not. A controller is enabled if there is a DIMM
behind it and disabled if there isn't.

> > /* Assume UMC MCA banks are enabled. */
> > nb_mce_en = true;
>
> Also, I don't like that assumption.
>

I'll look into it.

> > This would work for Fam17h. For older systems I think we can look at
> > D18F2x94_dct[1:0][DisDramInterface]
> >
> > Or maybe we have a separate function to check for enabled memory
> controllers
> > before we check for ECC?
>
> The best would be to have a function which checks whether DIMMs are
> present on the node and act accordingly. You can pull up some of the
> work of caching registers which are used in debug_display_dimm_sizes*
> and use that info to get the required DIMM state upfront.
>

Okay, so I'll do a separate function.

Thanks,
Yazen
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