Re: [PATCH v4] cper, apei, mce: Pass x86 CPER through the MCA handling chain

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Sep 25 2020 - 12:27:20 EST


On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:19:40AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> This patch is checking if an MSR context info structure lines up with
> the MCAX register space used on Scalable MCA systems. This register
> space is defined in the AMD Processor Programming Reference for various
> products. This is considered a hardware feature extension, so the
> existing register layout won't change though new registers may be added.

Yeah, and exactly for that there's no need to add a special structure
because if new registers get added, you'd need to add a new struct
definition too. Let's keep it simple and do the offsets thing.

Thx.

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