On 08/12/2013 05:03 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:03:22 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:38:22PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:57:51 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
Enable memory error trace event in cper.c
Why do we need to do that? Memory error events are already handled
via edac_ghes module,
If APEI gives me all the required information in order to deal with the
hardware error - and it looks like it does - then the additional layer
of ghes_edac is not needed.
APEI is just the mechanism that collects the data, not the mechanism
that reports to userspace.
I think what Boris is saying is that ghes_edac isn't adding anything
more here given what we get from APEI structures. So, there doesn't seem
to be a need to add dependency on edac for this purpose.
Further, ghes_edac seems to require EDAC_MM_EDAC to be compiled into the
kernel (not a module). So, more dependencies.
The current implementation is that APEI already reports those errors
via ghes_edac driver. It also reports the very same error via MCE
(although the APEI interface to MCE is currently broken for everything
that it is not Nehalem-EX - as it basically emulates the MCE log for
that specific architecture).
So, I looked at ghes_edac and it basically seems to boil down to
trace_mc_event. But, this only seems to expose the APEI data as a string
and doesn't look to really make all the fields available to user-space
in a raw manner. Not sure how well this can be utilised by a user-space
tool. Do you have suggestions on how we can do this?
Thanks,
Naveen
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