From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757942Ab2B2MTc (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:19:32 -0500 Received: from s15943758.onlinehome-server.info ([217.160.130.188]:38616 "EHLO mail.x86-64.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756446Ab2B2MTb (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:19:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:19:14 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Borislav Petkov , Hidetoshi Seto , Tony Luck , Ingo Molnar , EDAC devel , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint Message-ID: <20120229121914.GD21224@aftab> References: <1330445487-15020-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <1330445487-15020-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <4F4D7BF9.9070104@jp.fujitsu.com> <20120229101047.GA21224@aftab> <4F4E145E.4040901@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F4E145E.4040901@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:04:46AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Not all information is packed in the record. The record packs only what it > is inside the MCE registers. However, for certain errors, it is needed to > parse other hardware registers to decode the error (for example, on Sandy > Bridge, the MCE registers don't contain the affected dimms). If SB is not using MCA to report the error, it should use either a generic TP like the trace_hw_error() example I gave last week, or rather a TP which matches the hw registers of the reporting hardware scheme. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85609 Dornach GM: Alberto Bozzo Reg: Dornach, Landkreis Muenchen HRB Nr. 43632 WEEE Registernr: 129 19551