Em Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:04:24 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:49:32AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Clear win from what PoV? Userspace will need to decode a different type > > of tracing, and implement a different logic for APEI. > > There's no different type of tracing - it is the same info as in both > cases it comes from APEI. Well, patch 2/3 is defining a different type of tracing for memory errors, instead of re-using the existing one. > And if it can be done in the APEI layer, then > we don't need the next layer. Userspace still needs the EDAC sysfs, in order to identify how the memory is organized, and do the proper memory labels association. What edac_ghes does is to fill those sysfs nodes, and to call the existing tracing to report errors. > > Also, if both ghes_edac and this new tracing is enabled, userspace > > will receive twice the same event, as two traces will be received for > > the same thing. > > We are, of course, going to have only one tracepoint which reports > memory errors, not two. Yes, that's my point. Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
