Re: [PATCH 3/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Enable ghes memory error trace event

Borislav Petkov
2013-08-13T17:58:14Z

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:02:08PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, even for systems that have EDAC drivers, it looks
> to me like EDAC can't really decode to the DIMM given what is provided
> by the bios in the APEI report currently. If and when ghes_edac gains
> this capability, users will have a choice between raw APEI reports vs.
> edac processed ones.

Which kinda makes that APEI tracepoint not really useful and we can call
the one we have already - trace_mc_event - from APEI...

> I started out with a simpler name, but eventually decided to use the
> name from the CPER record so it is clear what this event carries. I
> think this will be better when adding further ghes events for say,
> processor generic, PCIe and others.

This is exactly my fear: having to add a tracepoint per error type
instead of having a single trace_hw_error or so...

> >Btw 2, if GHES can report other types of errors (I'm pretty sure it can)
> >maybe we can use a single tracepoint called trace_ghes_event for any
> >types of errors coming out of it...
>
> Two problems with this:
> - One, the record size will be really big since the cper records for
> each type of error is large.

I better go look at that CPER crap....

> - Two, it may be better to filter events based on the type of error
> (memory error, processor, pcie, ...) rather than subscribing for all
> ghes error reports.

You can filter that in userspace too.

> Do you mean conditionally print the cper records based on whether the
> tracepoint is enabled or not? Wouldn't that be confusing if someone is
> monitoring dmesg as well?

Why would you need dmesg if you get your hw errors over the tracepoint?

Thanks.

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