From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755350AbZECAc5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 20:32:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752833AbZECAcs (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 20:32:48 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35104 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752719AbZECAcs (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 20:32:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 20:32:56 -0400 From: Aristeu Rozanski To: petkovbb@gmail.com, Andi Kleen , Borislav Petkov , akpm@linux-foundation.org, greg@kroah.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, dougthompson@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Woodard , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21 v2] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64 Message-ID: <20090503003256.GD22116@redhat.com> References: <1241024107-14535-1-git-send-email-borislav.petkov@amd.com> <87iqknp8a0.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20090430115741.GA23634@aftab> <20090430124716.GW23223@one.firstfloor.org> <20090430144756.GA25200@redhat.com> <20090501075311.GA14176@liondog.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090501075311.GA14176@liondog.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I thought I should summarize some points on the design direction, which, > in my impression are what all the parties involved more or less would > agree on: > > * mce interrupt delivers, if EDAC compiled in, the required batch of > dumped MSRs to chipset/CPU specific EDAC driver. Aristeu, I guess you > guys have some code on that, right? it's in really early stage and like Andi said, it needs work. > * EDAC module decodes MCE info, computes the DIMM label out of > that. Additional hw setup stuff like memory hoisting/interleaving, > ganged/unganged MC mode, testing infrastructure like DRAM error > injection and all that pertaining to the specific hw is handled by the > EDAC module. > > * If EDAC not enabled, mce operates as before. agreed. -- Aristeu