On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:37:52AM -0600, Tracy Smith wrote:
> This was very helpful.
I'm glad.
Can you do me a favor pls and not top-post when replying on a mailing
list?
Thx.
> Tracing through the code, it doesn't do a panic
> before Linux crashes from multi-bit errors because as York has
> indicated, this type of memory controller doesn't limit the number of
> errors.
>
> I do have a general question about single bit errors. The EDAC driver
> corrects single bit errors by doing a scrub, is this correct? The
> edac code does not do periodic scrubs, but I see scrubs when a
> correctable error is found (edac_mc_scrub_block and edac_atomic_scrub
> in edac_mc.c)?
>
> This is more directed toward York for layerscape.
Yes, this is all platform-specific as you can see that some arches
implement that atomic scrubbing thing. Also, not every driver sets
mci->scrub_mode == SCRUB_SW_SRC
in order to even do the scrubbing.
HTH.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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