Re: EDAC-AMD64: what is the ecc_msg good for ?

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 10 2018 - 18:13:05 EST


On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:06:49AM +0100, Gabriel C wrote:
> while doing some testings with a EPYC box I notice
> these strange messages when a Node is disabled.
>
> I really do think the message is confusing since
> we tell 'Node X: ... disabled' followed by a
> INFO on the edac driver which tells the driver will not load.

And that is confusing because?

> Also even worse , we suggest to use ecc_enable_override then,
> which can cause wrose things.. We really should not suggest
> something like this by default.

That is an remnant from the old times. Family 0x17 and newer doesn't
allow that anymore.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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