Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:19:14 +0100 | | From | Borislav Petkov <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint |
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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:04:46AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Not all information is packed in the record. The record packs only what it > is inside the MCE registers. However, for certain errors, it is needed to > parse other hardware registers to decode the error (for example, on Sandy > Bridge, the MCE registers don't contain the affected dimms).
If SB is not using MCA to report the error, it should use either a generic TP like the trace_hw_error() example I gave last week, or rather a TP which matches the hw registers of the reporting hardware scheme.
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