Re: [PATCH v7 9/9] docs: ABI: testing: Document the Ampere Altra Family's SMpro sysfs interfaces

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 03:13:55PM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> Add documentation for the Ampere(R)'s Altra(R) SMpro sysfs interfaces
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> Changes in v7:
>   + First introduce in v7     [Greg]
> 
>  .../sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro   | 133 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 133 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9bfd8d6d0f71
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro
> @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
> +What:		/sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_[core|mem|pcie|other]_[ce|ue]

Please split this out as one entry per file.

> +KernelVersion:	5.14

5.14 is a long time ago.

> +Contact:	quan@os.amperecomputing.com
> +Description:
> +		(RO) Contains the 48-byte Ampere (Vendor-Specific) Error Record, see [1]
> +		printed in hex format as below:
> +
> +		AA BB CCCC DDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD \
> +		   DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
> +		Where:
> +		  AA       : Error Type
> +		  BB       : Subtype
> +		  CCCC     : Instance
> +		  DDD...DDD: Similar to the Arm RAS standard error record

No, this is not a valid sysfs file, sorry.  This should just be one
value per file.


> +
> +		See [1] below for the format details.
> +
> +		The detail of each sysfs entries is as below:
> +		+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
> +		|   Error     |                   Sysfs entry                           |
> +		+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
> +		| Core's CE   | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_core_ce |
> +		| Core's UE   | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_core_ue |
> +		| Memory's CE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_mem_ce  |
> +		| Memory's UE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_mem_ue  |
> +		| PCIe's CE   | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_pcie_ce |
> +		| PCIe's UE   | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_pcie_ue |
> +		| Other's CE  | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_other_ce|
> +		| Other's UE  | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_other_ue|
> +		+-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
> +		UE: Uncorrect-able Error
> +		CE: Correct-able Error
> +
> +		[1] Section 3.3 Ampere (Vendor-Specific) Error Record Formats,
> +		    Altra Family RAS Supplement.
> +
> +
> +What:           /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_[smpro|pmpro]
> +KernelVersion:	5.14
> +Contact:	quan@os.amperecomputing.com
> +Description:
> +		(RO) Contains the internal firmware error record printed as hex format
> +		as below:
> +
> +		A BB C DD EEEE FFFFFFFF

Again this isn't a good sysfs entry.  You should never have to parse a
sysfs file except for a single value.

thanks,

greg k-h