linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Register MCE notifier for Aldebaran RAS

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Message-ID: <YUyRFl3oc2CwFxZz@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:37:10 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc:     Mukul Joshi <mukul.joshi@....com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        mchehab@...nel.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Register MCE notifier for Aldebaran RAS

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 02:29:07PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If the error was generated in UMC_V2, which belongs to GPU UMCs,
> > +	 * and error occurred in DramECC (Extended error code = 0) then only
> > +	 * process the error, else bail out.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (!m || !((smca_get_bank_type(m->bank) == SMCA_UMC_V2) &&
> > +		    (XEC(m->status, 0x1f) == 0x0)))
> 
> The MCA_STATUS[ErrorCodeExt] field is bits [21:16], so the mask should be
> 0x3f.
> 
> > +		return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If it is correctable error, return.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (mce_is_correctable(m))
> > +		return NOTIFY_OK;
> 
> Shouldn't this be "NOTIFY_DONE" if "don't care" about this error?

I think the logic here is to stop calling any further consumers on the
notify chain because this is a GPU correctable error and they can't do
anything about it anyway, right?

Or am I misreading it?

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    Boris.

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