Re: edac driver injection of uncorrected errors & utils

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:37:52AM -0600, Tracy Smith wrote:
> This was very helpful.

I'm glad.

Can you do me a favor pls and not top-post when replying on a mailing
list?

Thx.

> Tracing through the code, it doesn't do a panic
> before Linux crashes from multi-bit errors because as York has
> indicated, this type of memory controller doesn't limit the number of
> errors.
> 
> I do have a general question about single bit errors.  The EDAC driver
> corrects single bit errors by doing a scrub, is this correct?  The
> edac code does not do periodic scrubs, but I see scrubs when a
> correctable error is found (edac_mc_scrub_block and edac_atomic_scrub
> in edac_mc.c)?
> 
> This is more directed toward York for layerscape.

Yes, this is all platform-specific as you can see that some arches
implement that atomic scrubbing thing. Also, not every driver sets

  mci->scrub_mode == SCRUB_SW_SRC

in order to even do the scrubbing.

HTH.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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