> -----Original Message----- > From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:16 AM > To: Ghannam, Yazen <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL > names > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:46:33PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote: > > Future SMCA systems may have banks whose MCA_IPID is not known so we > > You lost me here. How would the IPID not be known? Are you talking about > an old kernel running on new HW and thus the HardwareID in its MCA_IPID > to be unknown to the old kernel? >
Yes, that's right: old kernel on new HW. > > In the past, the sysfs entries were named something like "th_bank#" before > > each bank was given a more descriptive name. We can go back to this format > > as a fallback for unrecognized bank types. This will fix the issue with > > sysfs > > failing and also the interface will still work on new hardware. > > You could do: th_bank#<HardwareID> so that we can find what it is by > grepping the PPR. > Good idea. Will do. Thanks, Yazen
