RE: [PATCH 3/3] ie31200_edac: Add driver

[Luck, Tony]

> So when the driver sees uncorrected errors, I'm also seeing them in my
> memory scanning program - so they correspond nicely. I didn't see anything
> logged in /var/log/mcelog, but I will update to the latest when possible.

I wonder if there are some BIOS options to enable reporting via CMCI/MCE?
On the E5 systems the reference BIOS uses phrases like "poison forwarding"
in the option names.

The above behavior sounds less than useful.

Scenario: Your mission critical app is running (controlling a giant laser cutter).
Oops there is a memory error, and the bad data arrives at the application causing
it to swing the laser beam through 180 degrees, destroying half of your lab.
A few seconds/minutes later - your EDAC driver prints a message saying that
the uncorrected error count just got incremented.

-Tony