Re: [PATCH 03/20] x86, mce: Add persistent MCE event

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:34 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 3) enable the persistent event and stash its fd in some /sysfs member
> which the RAS daemon reads out and mmaps. This last one actually sounds
> pretty neat. 

Right, stashing the thing in sysfs, which you can open()+mmap() seems
the best way. Not sure you want to make it a RAS specific place, maybe a
generic persistent buffer place.

You'll get multiple files anyway, one per cpu, so maybe something like:

/sysfs/persistent_buffer/ras[0..n]


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