linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RAS/AMD/FMPM: Add option to ignore CEs

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Message-ID: <20251007145644.GB11984@yaz-khff2.amd.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 10:56:44 -0400
From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: tony.luck@...el.com, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avadhut.naik@....com,
	john.allen@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAS/AMD/FMPM: Add option to ignore CEs

On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 11:34:06PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 03:17:31PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> > Generally, FMPM will handle all memory errors as it is expected that
> > "upstream" entities, like hardware thresholding or other Linux notifier
> > blocks, will filter out errors.
> > 
> > However, some users prefer that correctable errors are not filtered out
> > but only that FMPM does not take action on them.
> 
> That's a pretty shallow use case if you ask me...
> 
> -- 

I think it's a common use case without FMPM.

IOW, log correctable errors but don't offline memory because of them.

Does that sounds better or about the same?

Thanks,
Yazen