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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/20] x86, mce: Add persistent MCE event
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:34 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > 3) enable the persistent event and stash its fd in some /sysfs member
> > which the RAS daemon reads out and mmaps. This last one actually sounds
> > pretty neat.
>
> Right, stashing the thing in sysfs, which you can open()+mmap() seems
> the best way. Not sure you want to make it a RAS specific place, maybe a
> generic persistent buffer place.
>
> You'll get multiple files anyway, one per cpu, so maybe something like:
>
> /sysfs/persistent_buffer/ras[0..n]

Yeah, or even integrate it even further into the events hierarchy like
this:

/sys/.../cpu/events/mce -> this is the trace_mce_record tracepoint
/sys/.../cpu/events/mce_pers -> persistent buffer fd

or an additional level further down

/sys/.../cpu/events/mce/persistent/...

or whatever.

Generally I don't care too much where we put it at the end.

Thanks.

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