Re: [RFC PATCH] EDAC, ghes: Enable per-layer error reporting for ARM

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:09:24PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Does x86 have another source of memory-topology information it needs to
> correlate smbios with?

Bah, pinpointing the DIMM on x86 is a mess. There's no reliable way to
say which DIMM it is in certain cases (interleaving, mirrorring, ...)
and it is all platform-dependent. So we do the layers to dump a memory
location (node, memory controller, ....) so that we can at least limit
the number of DIMMs the user needs to replace/try.

In an ideal world, I'd like to be able to query the SPD chips on the
DIMMs and build the topology and then when an error happens to say,
"error in DIMM <silkscreen>" where silkscreen is what is written on the
motherboard under the DIMM socket.

But I don't see that happening any time soon...

> For arm there is nothing else describing the memory-topology, so as long as we
> can correlate the smbios table and ghes:cper records through the handles, we can
> get this working for all systems.

And then make sure vendors fill in the proper info in smbios. Because that's
also a mess on x86.

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    Boris.

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