Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:42:38 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v2 2/2] x86, MCE: Drop the default decoding notifier |
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:40:11PM -0400, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> > > Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:32:06 +0200 > > Subject: [PATCH -v2.1 2/2] x86, MCE: Drop the default decoding notifier > > > > The default notifier doesn't make a lot of sense to call in the > > correctable errors case. Drop it and emit the mcelog decoding hint only > > in the uncorrectable errors case and when no notifier is registered. > > Also, limit issuing the "mcelog --ascii" message in the rare case when > > we dump unreported CEs before panicking. > > > > While at it, remove unused old x86_mce_decode_callback from the > > header. > > Can we please print something if we please log something in the > case of a correctable error, when we only report it via mcelog? > > I have a stupid recent intel cpu here that hits that case and without > the default x86_mce_decode_callback I wouldn't have even known that I am > getting something like 50 correctable errors an hour on one of my > machines. In particular I am it hits so often I am seeing: > "mce_notify_irq: 2 callbacks suppressed". I need to get those dimms > replaced soon because in a new product I simply can't imagine that many > correctable errors.
Isn't there a mcelog daemon or something that polls /dev/mcelog and tells you about those DRAM ECCs in some log file where you're supposed to look? :)
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