Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] RAS: Introduce AMD Address Translation Library

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 09:23:44AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> I'm thinking that the warning only happens if the "assert" condition above
> is hit.

assert usually means "assert - abort the program if assertion is false"
- from assert(3).

> In older revisions, I had all these messages as "debug" loglevel. I don't
> think there's anything a user can do to fix these issues. They're either
> coding bugs in the library or system configuration.
> 
> I'd rather go back to the debug messages if you don't mind. It's not
> difficult to enable dynamic debug messages compared to DEBUG Kconfig
> options. So I think it'd be okay to work with users on this if they
> encounter an issue.

Makes sense.

> > > +static const struct x86_cpu_id amd_atl_cpuids[] = {
> > > +	X86_MATCH_FEATURE(X86_FEATURE_SMCA, NULL),
> > 
> > I'd expect for only this one to be needed, but not those below.
> > 
> 
> Me too. Those below are to workaround a current module loading issue. I'll
> add a code comment for that.

You mean the systemdoofus crap?

Fget it - we don't fix the kernel because luserspace is nuts.

> 
> > > +	X86_MATCH_FEATURE(X86_FEATURE_ZEN, NULL),

...and those are influx - this is called X86_FEATURE_ZEN1 now and
X86_FEATURE_ZEN is set on all Zens. So you might as well match on
X86_FEATURE_ZEN only.

But you should not need it - if SMCA doesn't match then we have another
problem. ATL should load on SMCA systems only.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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