Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:24:55 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] iommu/amd: IOMMU Error Reporting/Handling/Filtering |
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:59:33PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:15:00PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > Instead of extending this bad scaling dmesg error-reporting mechanism, > > I would very much like to see an integration of IOMMU error handling > > into the EDAC framework. > > Wouldn't just adding a tracepoint and collecting the logs in debugfs be > enough? This would at least avoid spamming syslog with the messages.
I would rather not create another user-space interface for this which we then have to keep forever because someone started using it. What we need is a well defined mechanism to report these kernel metrics to userspace which can then do with it whatever it wants. I think EDAC can provide that interface.
Joerg
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