linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] edac: add support for Amazon's Annapurna Labs EDAC

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:00:39 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        "Hawa, Hanna" <hhhawa@...zon.com>,
        "robh+dt@...nel.org" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        "paulmck@...ux.ibm.com" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com" <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Shenhar, Talel" <talel@...zon.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Chocron, Jonathan" <jonnyc@...zon.com>,
        "Krupnik, Ronen" <ronenk@...zon.com>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Hanoch, Uri" <hanochu@...zon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] edac: add support for Amazon's Annapurna Labs EDAC

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 07:42:42AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> That's said, from the admin PoV, it makes sense to have a single
> daemon that collect errors from all error sources and take the
> needed actions.

Doing recovery actions in userspace is too flaky. Daemon can get killed
at any point in time and there are error types where you want to do
recovery *before* you return to userspace.

Yes, we do have different error reporting facilities but I still think
that concentrating all the error information needed in order to do
proper recovery action is the better approach here. And make that part
of the kernel so that it is robust. Userspace can still configure it and
so on.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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