Re: [PATCH v5] x86/mce: retrieve poison range from hardware

From: Jane Chu
Date: Mon Aug 01 2022 - 16:32:05 EST


On 8/1/2022 8:58 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> struct mce m;
>> + int lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> Some maintainers like to order local declaration lines from longest to shortest
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>> + /*
>> + * Even if the ->validation_bits are set for address mask,
>> + * to be extra safe, check and reject an error radius '0',
>> + * and fallback to the default page size.
>> + */
>> + if (mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA_MASK) {
>> + lsb = __ffs64(mem_err->physical_addr_mask);
>> + if (lsb == 1)
>> + lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + }
>
>
> The comment above __ffs64() says:
>
> * The result is not defined if no bits are set, so check that @word
> * is non-zero before calling this.
>
> So if the intent is "extra safe" should check for that:
>
> if (mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA_MASK &&
> mem_err->physical_addr_mask) {
> lsb = __ffs64(mem_err->physical_addr_mask);
> if (lsb == 1)
> lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
> }

Indeed, thanks a lot!

-jane


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> -Tony
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