linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/31] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report Mecanism (HERM)

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Date:	Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:38:08 -0200
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
CC:	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/31] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report
 Mecanism (HERM)

Em 12-02-2012 16:44, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 03:21:42PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> As I said before, there's just one trace call for memory error events 
>> (hw_event:mc_error) on my second RFC.
> 
> Are you kidding me:
> 
> $ grep -EriIno "trace_.*\W" patch01.txt
> 
> ...
> 
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_corrected_error,
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_uncorrected_error,
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_corrected_error_fbd,
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_uncorrected_error_fbd,
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_out_of_range,
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_corrected_error_no_info,
> TRACE_EVENT(mc_uncorrected_error_no_info,
> 

Huh?

See PATCH v3 03/31:  hw_event: Consolidate uncorrected/corrected error msgs into one

Those events got merged there into one hardware event and one
software error event generated due to a hardware trouble
(mc_out_of_range). 

This patch:
	[PATCH v3 21/31] hw_event: Add x86 MCE events on it

adds the mc_error_mce variant per your request.

What is there is:

$ grep TRACE_EVENT include/trace/events/hw_event.h
TRACE_EVENT(mc_error,
TRACE_EVENT(mc_out_of_range,
TRACE_EVENT(mc_error_mce,
TRACE_EVENT(mc_out_of_range_mce,

And what I've said already is that I'll get rid of 
"mc_out_of_range_mce" in the final version, and convert
"mc_out_of_range" into a generic event to inform that a hardware
error occurred but the driver has a bug and weren't able to 
parse it.

I only added:
	TRACE_EVENT(mc_error_mce,
per your request to have an arch-specific event with both mce-record
data and mc_error information.

For me, only this hardware-error event is needed:
	TRACE_EVENT(mc_error,

Subsequent patches consolidate the drivers to just use one function
call to EDAC core to report the errors:
	edac_mc_handle_error()

That function increments the error counts, gets the associated
label(s) and generate the event. It currently also prints the error
message, to preserve backward compatibility.

Mauro.
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