Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Gamari <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/20] x86, mce: Add persistent MCE event | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:15:47 -0500 |
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:36:39 +0100, Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> > > Add the necessary glue to enable the mce_record tracepoint on boot > turning it into a persistent event. This exports the MCE buffer > read-only to a userspace daemon which will hook into it through debugfs > when booting is finished. > While MCE technically is a diagnostics service, do we want to start adding dependencies on debugfs in long-running, common-place daemons? I was under the impression we were to avoid using debugfs for anything other than values for one-off debugging.
Cheers,
- Ben
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