Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756900Ab3HLPE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:04:28 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:54124 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756216Ab3HLPE0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:04:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:04:24 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" , tony.luck@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, lance.ortiz@hp.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Enable ghes memory error trace event Message-ID: <20130812150424.GH18018@pd.tnic> References: <1375986471-27113-1-git-send-email-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1375986471-27113-4-git-send-email-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130808163822.67e0828a@samsung.com> <20130810180322.GC4155@pd.tnic> <20130812083355.47c1bae8@samsung.com> <20130812123813.GD18018@pd.tnic> <20130812114932.52bb0314@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130812114932.52bb0314@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 963 Lines: 26 On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:49:32AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Clear win from what PoV? Userspace will need to decode a different type > of tracing, and implement a different logic for APEI. There's no different type of tracing - it is the same info as in both cases it comes from APEI. And if it can be done in the APEI layer, then we don't need the next layer. > Also, if both ghes_edac and this new tracing is enabled, userspace > will receive twice the same event, as two traces will be received for > the same thing. We are, of course, going to have only one tracepoint which reports memory errors, not two. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/