Re: [PATCH] vmcore_info: expose hardware error recovery statistics via sysfs

[Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 09:59:58AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 01/29/26 at 05:34am, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > Add a sysfs file at /sys/kernel/vmcore_stats and expose hardware error
> > recovery statistics that are already tracked by the kernel. This allows
> > userspace monitoring tools to track recovered hardware errors without
> > requiring kernel crashes.
>
> I don't understand. If w/o requring kernel crashes, why do you call it
> vmcore_stats? It's a normal showing of hardware error recovery
> statistics tracked by kernel, can we name it /sys/kernel/hwerr_stats?

Agreed, /sys/kernel/hwerr_stats is a much better name. Thank you for the
suggestion!

> It's obviously having nothiing to do with vmcore, isn't it?

You're correct. The only connection is that this functionality currently
resides in kernel/vmcore_info.c. I initially thought it would make sense
to create a generic sysfs entry for vmcore, but I can see now that this
caused more confusion than clarification.

I'll update the patch accordingly.

Thanks,
--breno