linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Begin a RAS section

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Message-ID: <87a5pes8jy.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:47:29 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Yazen
 Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc: Muralidhara M K <muralimk@....com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Muralidhara M K <muralidhara.mk@....com>,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Begin a RAS section

Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 11:42:22AM +0000, Muralidhara M K wrote:
>> From: Muralidhara M K <muralidhara.mk@....com>
>> 
>> AMD systems with Scalable MCA, each machine check error of a SMCA bank
>> type has an associated bit position in the bank's control (CTL) register.
>
> Ontop of this. It is long overdue:
>
> ---
> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@...en8.de>
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:37:56 +0100
>
> Add some initial RAS documentation. The expectation is for this to
> collect all the user-visible features for interacting with the RAS
> features of the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/RAS/ras.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/index.rst   |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/RAS/ras.rst

I wish I'd been copied on this ... I've been working to get a handle on
the top-level Documentation/ directories for a while, and would rather
not see a new one added for this.  Offhand, based on this first
document, it looks like material that belongs under
Documentation/admin-guide; can we move it there, please?

Thanks,

jon