linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/21] EDAC, ghes: Unify trace_mc_event() code with edac

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Message-ID: <20190613222305.eqvpom2bgcavq5it@rric.localdomain>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:23:18 +0000
From:   Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
To:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>
CC:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] EDAC, ghes: Unify trace_mc_event() code with
 edac_mc driver

On 04.06.19 18:15:50, James Morse wrote:
> On 03/06/2019 14:10, Robert Richter wrote:
> > The +1 looks odd to me also for the edac_mc driver, but I need to take
> > a closer look here as well as some logs suggest the grain is
> > calculated correctly.
> 
> My theory on this is that ghes_edac.c is generating a grain like 0x1000, fls() does the
> right thing. Other edac drivers are generating a grain like 0xfff to describe the same
> size, fls() is now off-by-one, hence the addition.
> I don't have a platform where I can trigger any other edac driver to test this though.
> 
> The way round this would be to put the grain_bits in struct edac_raw_error_desc so that
> ghes_edac.c can calculate it directly.

I think the grain calculation in edac_mc is broken from the beginning:

 53f2d0289875 RAS: Add a tracepoint for reporting memory controller events

The log we see in the patch desc is:

 mc_event: 1 Corrected error:memory read on memory stick DIMM_1A (mc:0 location:0:0:0 page:0x586b6e offset:0xa66 grain:32 syndrome:0x0 area:DMA)

The grain reported in mc_event there is probably 8 (quad word,
granularity in bytes) and calculates as follows:

 dimm->grain = 8
 e->grain = dimm->grain
 grain_bits = fls_long(e->grain) + 1 = 4 + 1 = 5
 __entry->grain_bits = grain_bits
 TP_printk() = 1 << __entry->grain_bits = 2 << 5 = 32

So the reported grain of 32 should actually be 8.

I think the following is correct:

 grain_bits = fls_long(e->grain ? e->grain - 1 : 0);

This also handles the case if e->grain is not a power of 2.

Thoughts?

-Robert