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

Borislav Petkov
2013-08-12T12:53:50Z

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 06:11:49PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> So, I looked at ghes_edac and it basically seems to boil down to
> trace_mc_event. But, this only seems to expose the APEI data as a
> string and doesn't look to really make all the fields available to
> user-space in a raw manner. Not sure how well this can be utilised
> by a user-space tool.

Well, your tracepoint dumps the decoded memory error too. So all the
information we need is already there, without edac. Or am I missing some
bits?

Thus why I'm saying is that we don't need the additional edac layer.

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