Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] EDAC/amd64: Set memory type per DIMM

From: Yazen Ghannam
Date: Fri Feb 04 2022 - 10:51:26 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 04:46:44PM +0100, William Roche wrote:
> On 03/02/2022 15:09, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 02:19:19PM +0100, William Roche wrote:
> > > As we are moving the dram_type cached date from pvt to umc for family >=
> > > 0x17, should we also add a small comment for the dram_type field in the
> > > amd64_pvt structure to indicate that ?
> > Who would be that comment for? People who are looking at the code, so
> > that they know which is which?
>
> Yes, it could be a hint about the use case of this field.
> Of course we could be more complete and also comment the umc field use in
> this same structure that depends on the family higher or lower than 17 too.
> But I had the impression that the creation of a new dram_type cache field
> would be clarified by a comment on the old location, that's it.
> It's up to Yazen and you to include or not  this small addition about
> dram_type.
>

Thanks William for the review.

I think this is a good suggestion. I think it could be a bit more verbose.
Please see below.

Thanks,
Yazen

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