Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:36:25 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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        ddutile@redhat.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] iommu/amd: IOMMU Error Reporting/Handling/Filtering
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 06:24:55PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 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.

What exactly do you think it should provide? A fast way to carry error
info to userspace (tracepoint) or some sort of error collection and
evaluation (need to do it yourself anyway - there's no such thing in
EDAC).

IOW, what specific functionality in EDAC are you actually thinking of?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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