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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:49:55 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc: Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: [EDAC PATCH v13 6/7] edac.h: Prepare to handle with generic
layers
Subject: "edac.h: Prepare to handle with generic layers"
what does that even mean?
Do you per chance mean
"Add generic layers for describing a memory location"
or something similar?
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:12:12PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The edac core were written with the idea that memory controllers
> are able to directly access csrows, and that the channels are
> used inside a csrows select.
>
> This is not true for FB-DIMM and RAMBUS memory controllers.
>
> Also, some recent advanced memory controllers don't present a per-csrows
> view. Instead, they view memories as DIMM's, instead of ranks, accessed
DIMMs
> via csrow/channel.
>
> So, changes are needed in order to allow the EDAC core to
> work with all types of architectures.
>
> As a preparation for handling non-csrows based memory controllers,
In preparation...
> adds some memory structs and a macro:
add some...
> enum hw_event_mc_err_type: describes the type of error
> (corrected, uncorrected, fatal)
>
> To be used by the new edac_mc_handle_error function;
>
> enum edac_mc_layer: describes the type of a given Memory
memory
> architecture layer (branch, channel, slot, csrow).
>
> struct edac_mc_layer: describes the properties of a memory
> layer (type, size, and if the layer
> will be used on a virtual csrow.
>
> GET_POS() - as the number of layers can vary from 1 to 3,
> this macro converts from an address with up to 3 layers into
> a linear address.
>
> Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/edac.h | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/edac.h b/include/linux/edac.h
> index 8b78bd0..0fdf6ba 100644
> --- a/include/linux/edac.h
> +++ b/include/linux/edac.h
> @@ -67,6 +67,25 @@ enum dev_type {
> #define DEV_FLAG_X64 BIT(DEV_X64)
>
> /**
> + * enum hw_event_mc_err_type - type of the detected error
> + *
> + * @HW_EVENT_ERR_CORRECTED: Corrected Error - Indicates that an ECC
> + * corrected error was detected
> + * @HW_EVENT_ERR_UNCORRECTED: Uncorrected Error - Indicates an error that
> + * can't be corrected by ECC, but it is not
> + * factal (maybe it is on an unused memory area,
fatal
> + * or the memory controller could recover from
> + * it for example, by re-trying the operation).
> + * @HW_EVENT_ERR_FATAL: Fatal Error - Uncorrected error that could not
> + * be recovered.
> + */
> +enum hw_event_mc_err_type {
> + HW_EVENT_ERR_CORRECTED,
> + HW_EVENT_ERR_UNCORRECTED,
> + HW_EVENT_ERR_FATAL,
Need a terminating elem here:
HW_EVENT_ERR_NUM,
> +};
> +
> +/**
> * enum mem_type - memory types. For a more detailed reference, please see
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM
> *
> @@ -308,7 +327,69 @@ enum scrub_type {
> * PS - I enjoyed writing all that about as much as you enjoyed reading it.
> */
>
> -/* FIXME: add a per-dimm ce error count */
> +/**
> + * enum edac_mc_layer - memory controller hierarchy layer
> + *
> + * @EDAC_MC_LAYER_BRANCH: memory layer is named "branch"
> + * @EDAC_MC_LAYER_CHANNEL: memory layer is named "channel"
> + * @EDAC_MC_LAYER_SLOT: memory layer is named "slot"
> + * @EDAC_MC_LAYER_CHIP_SELECT: memory layer is named "chip select"
> + *
> + * This enum is used by the drivers to tell edac_mc_sysfs what name should
> + * be used when describing a memory stick location.
> + */
> +enum edac_mc_layer_type {
> + EDAC_MC_LAYER_BRANCH,
> + EDAC_MC_LAYER_CHANNEL,
> + EDAC_MC_LAYER_SLOT,
> + EDAC_MC_LAYER_CHIP_SELECT,
ditto.
> +};
> +
> +/**
> + * struct edac_mc_layer - describes the memory controller hierarchy
> + * @layer: layer type
> + * @size:maximum size of the layer
> + * @is_csrow: This layer is part of the "csrow" when old API
> + * compatibility mode is enabled. Otherwise, it is
> + * a channel
> + */
> +struct edac_mc_layer {
> + enum edac_mc_layer_type type;
> + unsigned size;
> + bool is_csrow;
> +};
Huh, why do you need is_csrow? Can't do
type = EDAC_MC_LAYER_CHIP_SELECT;
?
> +
> +/*
> + * Maximum number of layers used by the memory controller to uniquelly
uniquely
> + * identify a single memory stick.
> + * NOTE: incrementing it would require changes at edac_mc_handle_error()
> + * and at the routines at edac_mc_sysfs that create layers
Maybe add their names here with a regex or so: edac_mc_blabla_*
?
> + */
> +#define EDAC_MAX_LAYERS 3
> +
> +/*
> + * A loop could be used here to make it more generic, but, as we only have
> + * 3 layers, this is a little faster. By design, layers can never be 0 or
> + * more than 3. If that ever happens, a NULL is returned, causing an OOPS
> + * during the memory allocation routine, with would point to the developer
> + * that he's doing something wrong.
> + */
> +#define GET_POS(layers, var, nlayers, lay0, lay1, lay2) ({ \
This is returning size per layers so it cannot be GET_POS(), AFAICT.
EDAC_GET_SIZE or similar maybe?
> + typeof(var) __p; \
> + if ((nlayers) == 1) \
> + __p = &var[lay0]; \
> + else if ((nlayers) == 2) \
> + __p = &var[(lay1) + ((layers[1]).size * (lay0))]; \
> + else if ((nlayers) == 3) \
> + __p = &var[(lay2) + ((layers[2]).size * ((lay1) + \
> + ((layers[1]).size * (lay0))))]; \
> + else \
> + __p = NULL; \
> + __p; \
> +})
--
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