From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, greg@kroah.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
hpa@zytor.com, dougthompson@xmission.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21 v2] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:21:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090430122101.GA32751@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090430115741.GA23634@aftab>
* Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> wrote:
> > -Andi (who thinks all of this decoding should be in user space
> > anyways)
>
> Think of a big data center with a thousands of 2,4,8 socket blades
> and the admin collecting mce output and running around decoding
> the errors on his workstation. Even worse, the blades have
> different DIMM configurations due to hw upgrades/newer machines.
> I'd much rather have the complete decoding done in kernel, where
> all the information needed for proper decoding is present and with
> the error landing in syslog or some other monitored buffer instead
> of reconstructing it in userspace.
Yes, this aspect of the design is correct. The MCE code is seriously
mis-designed that way, lets not repeat it for EDAC :)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-30 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-29 16:54 [RFC PATCH 00/21 v2] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64 Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 01/21] x86: add methods for writing of an MSR on several CPUs Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 17:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-04 16:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-04 17:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 20:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 02/21] amd64_edac: add PCI config register defines Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 20:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 03/21] amd64_edac: add driver structs Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 20:38 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 04/21] amd64_edac: add memory scrubber interface Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 21:02 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 05/21] amd64_edac: add sys addr to memory controller mapping helpers Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 21:08 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 06/21] amd64_edac: add functionality to compute the DRAM hole Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 21:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 07/21] amd64_edac: add DRAM address type conversion facilities Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 21:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 08/21] amd64_edac: add helper to dump relevant registers Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 21:43 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 09/21] amd64_edac: assign DRAM chip select base and mask in a family-specific way Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 21:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-05-05 10:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 10/21] amd64_edac: add k8-specific methods Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 22:06 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 11/21] amd64_edac: add f10-and-later methods-p1 Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 22:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 12/21] amd64_edac: add f10-and-later methods-p2 Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 23:25 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 13/21] amd64_edac: add f10-and-later methods-p3 Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 18:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 18:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 19:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29 19:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 19:42 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29 19:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 20:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-30 10:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-04-30 10:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-04 23:36 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 14/21] amd64_edac: add per-family descriptors Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 23:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 15/21] amd64_edac: add ECC chipkill syndrome mapping table Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 23:42 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 16/21] amd64_edac: add error decoding logic Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 18:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-04 23:48 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 17/21] amd64_edac: add EDAC core-related initializers Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 23:53 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 18/21] amd64_edac: add ECC reporting initializers Borislav Petkov
2009-05-04 23:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 19/21] amd64_edac: add debugging/testing code Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 18:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 20/21] amd64_edac: add DRAM error injection logic using sysfs Borislav Petkov
2009-04-29 18:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-05 0:06 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 16:55 ` [PATCH 21/21] amd64_edac: add module registration routines Borislav Petkov
2009-05-05 0:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-04-29 19:30 ` [RFC PATCH 00/21 v2] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64 Andi Kleen
2009-04-30 11:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-04-30 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-30 12:47 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-30 14:48 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2009-05-01 7:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-05-03 0:32 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2009-04-30 18:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-05-01 12:39 ` Ingo Molnar
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2009-04-30 14:23 Doug Thompson
2009-04-30 14:39 Doug Thompson
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