Re: [PATCH 2/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Add trace event for ghes memory error

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:57:50PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> +TRACE_EVENT(ghes_platform_memory_event,
> +	TP_PROTO(const struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus,
> +		 const struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata,
> +		 const struct cper_sec_mem_err *mem),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(estatus, gdata, mem),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field(	u32,	estatus_block_status		)
> +		__field(	u32,	estatus_raw_data_offset		)
> +		__field(	u32,	estatus_raw_data_length		)
> +		__field(	u32,	estatus_data_length		)
> +		__field(	u32,	estatus_error_severity		)
> +		__array(	u8,	gdata_section_type,	16	)
> +		__field(	u32,	gdata_error_severity		)
> +		__field(	u16,	gdata_revision			)
> +		__field(	u8,	gdata_validation_bits		)
> +		__field(	u8,	gdata_flags			)
> +		__field(	u32,	gdata_error_data_length		)
> +		__array(	u8,	gdata_fru_id,		16	)
> +		__array(	u8,	gdata_fru_text,		20	)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_validation_bits		)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_error_status		)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_physical_addr		)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_physical_addr_mask		)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_node			)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_card			)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_module			)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_bank			)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_device			)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_row				)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_column			)
> +		__field(	u16,	mem_bit_pos			)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_requestor_id		)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_responder_id		)
> +		__field(	u64,	mem_target_id			)
> +		__field(	u8,	mem_error_type			)
> +	),

Without looking at the rest, a trace record from this tracepoint is
going to be 160 bytes IINM, which looks kinda fat to me. And during an
error storm we're probably not going to be able to log them all, maybe?
Yes, no, maybe I'm off base...

In any case, are we sure we want all those fields above? Can we make
them smaller, drop some of them from the tracepoint, etc, etc? Can we
compute some of them in userspace with information we already have?

Hmmm.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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