linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 3/3] edac: altera: Add EDAC support for Altera SDRAM

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 16:58:20 -0500
From:	Thor Thayer <tthayer.linux@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Thor Thayer <tthayer@...era.com>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>, pawel.moll@....com,
	mark.rutland@....com, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...era.com>, dougthompson@...ssion.com,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 3/3] edac: altera: Add EDAC support for Altera SDRAM

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 03:31:53PM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote:
>> Yes, good point. Our hardware can't recover from Double Bit Errors so
>> I'll go back to the panic() in that path. I like the flexibility of
>> the command line parameter though...
>
> Like to panic by default when the machine is booted normally but to be
> able to turn off the panicking with a module parameter?
>
> If so, then you could probably implement a trivial setter called
>
> edac_mc_set_panic_on_ue() in a separate patch.
>
> Then, you call it at the end of altr_sdram_probe().
>
> If you want to turn it off again, you do
>
> echo "0" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_panic_on_ue
>
> Something like that...
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
> --

Hi Boris. Yes. this would be a nice solution. I'll use the panic for
now in my next revision of the patch - we know a DBE is bad news.
Thanks!
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