Re: [NAK] Re: [PATCH -v2 9/9] ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> >From Kconfig:
> 
>   EDAC is designed to report errors in the core system.
>   These are low-level errors that are reported in the CPU or
>   supporting chipset or other subsystems:
>   memory errors, cache errors, PCI errors, thermal throttling, etc..
>   If unsure, select 'Y'.
> 
> So please explain why your error reporting is so different from the above that it 
> justifies a separate facility. And you better come up with a real good explanation 
> other than we looked at EDAC and it did not fit our needs.

Btw., it's not just about EDAC - the firmware can store Linux events persistently 
(beyond allowing the firmware to insert its own RAS events), that is obviously 
_hugely_ useful for kernel debugging in general. We could inject debugging events 
there and recover them after a crash, etc.

As long as it's all integrated into the standard event logging facilities it could 
be very useful (and i dont generally complain about things that are insignificant).

As /dev/erst-dbg it's not useful at all - in fact it might close the door to sane 
future usage of this hw facility if some crappy user-space learns to rely on the 
/dev/erst-dbg ABI.

Thanks,

	Ingo