linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RAS: Add a tracepoint for reporting memory controller events

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Message-ID: <20120531121741.GB14515@aftab.osrc.amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 14:17:41 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@...hat.com>,
	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAS: Add a tracepoint for reporting memory controller
 events

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:33:25AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Huh? Tony said that some errors report at 4K granularity while, others
> are at cache line size.

Cacheline size is from MCE. This tracepoint is for memory controller
errors where granularity should be pretty stable.

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