linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aerdrv: Fix severity usage in aer trace event

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Date:	Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:09:04 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Rui Wang <ruiv.wang@...il.com>, lance.ortiz@...com,
	lance_ortiz@...mail.com, jiang.liu@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gong.chen@...ux.intel.com, m.chehab@...sung.com,
	Rui Wang <rui.y.wang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aerdrv: Fix severity usage in aer trace event

On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 12:17:53PM +0800, Rui Wang wrote:
> > There's inconsistency between dmesg and the trace event output.
> > When dmesg says "severity=Corrected", the trace event says
> > "severity=Fatal". What happens is that HW_EVENT_ERR_CORRECTED is
> > defined in edac.h:
> > 
> > enum hw_event_mc_err_type {
> >         HW_EVENT_ERR_CORRECTED,
> >         HW_EVENT_ERR_UNCORRECTED,
> >         HW_EVENT_ERR_FATAL,
> >         HW_EVENT_ERR_INFO,
> > };
> > 
> > while aer_print_error() uses aer_error_severity_string[] defined as:
> > 
> > static const char *aer_error_severity_string[] = {
> >         "Uncorrected (Non-Fatal)",
> >         "Uncorrected (Fatal)",
> >         "Corrected"
> > };
> > 
> > In this case dmesg is correct because info->severity is assigned in
> > aer_isr_one_error() using the definitions in include/linux/ras.h:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rui Wang <rui.y.wang@...el.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks.

I said "Applied" but this is Bjorn's area: Bjorn, wanna take this one or
are you fine with it going over the RAS tree?

Btw, I have a 2 trivial cleanups for aerdrv_errprint.c which are
following...

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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