On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 04:10:59PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Again, I have no idea what you are doing at all with this driver, nor > > what you want to do with it. > > > > Start over please. > > TL;DR is that silicon ages and some things break that don't have parity/ECC checks. > So systems start behaving erratically. If you are lucky they crash. If you are less lucky > they give incorrect results. > > There's a paper (and even a movie 11 minutes) that describe the research by > Google on this. > https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s01-hochschild.pdf > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMF3rqhjYuM) Both you and Dan are assuming that I actually care about this hardware and driver enough to read a presentation or watch a video about it. Sorry, but that's not happening :) I'm saying these questions as you all need to be asking yourself that, and figuring out what the proper api is. That's not my job here. I was just pointing out the problems in your original submission that you all should have caught before sending it out... good luck! greg k-h
