Re: noisy edac

[Gunther Mayer]

Dave Peterson wrote:

> On Monday 30 January 2006 15:44, Gunther Mayer wrote:
>  
>
> > > For each individual type of error that is specific to a particular
> > > low-level chipset driver (e752x, amd76x, etc.) there could be an entry
> > > in the appropriate part of the sysfs hierarchy under the given chipset
> > > driver.  This entry could have several settings that the user may choose
> > >      
> > >
> > > from such as { ignore, syslog, panic }.  For the implementation, there
> >    
> >
> > > could be a generic piece of code in the core EDAC module that a chipset
> > > driver calls into.  The generic code would do the dirty work of creating
> > > the sysfs entries (and destroying them when the chipset module is
> > > unloading).  How does this sound?
> > >      
> > Over-Engineered.
> >    
>
> Do you have an alternate suggestion?
>  
Just printk() the exact driver specific low-level error, even if non-fatal.

Single non-fatal errors just show your system recovers correctly.

Multiple (e.g. noisy) non-fatal are either an indication of a serious 
problem
 (e.g. after how many corrected ECC errors on the same address in which
   time interval will you replace your dimm? How many S-ATA CRC-errors
    will indicate marginal bad cabling? )
or it shows the problem needs to be root analyzed. But don't disable the
messages as this will only hide the real problem.

Concerning Non-Fatal PCI Express errors, the error cause registers need
to be printed in case of error, too (see Intel Chipset Specifications)

-
Gunther


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