[cgl_discussion] Project Review: MCA Handler

[Steven Dake]

Venkatesh,

Have you considered exporting the information through some typical ramfs 
style interface, such as /proc ?

Thanks
-steve

Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:

>Hi Randy,
>
>Current MCA handler does decode the STATUS information during an MCA error
>and gives some generic error details (like TLB error, cache error etc) to
>the user. But we feel that providing the complete error information
>(decoding of MISC, ADDR and looking at whether this happened in one
>particular CPU or all the CPUs, etc) can be done better by a user tool or
>event log manager rather than in the kernel. We are logging the contents of
>all the MCA related registers (including MISC register) at the time of an
>MCA error, which can then be used by the user level MCA error information
>decoder.
>
>Thanks,
>-Venkatesh
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Randy.Dunlap [mailto:rddunlap at osdl.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:16 PM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: 'cgl_discussion at lists.osdl.org'
>Subject: Re: [cgl_discussion] Project Review: MCA Handler
>
>
>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>
>| Requirements related to MCA Handler project
>| -------------------------------------------
>| Requirement: 4.5 Platform Signal Handler
>|
>| How MCA Handler meets the CGL requirements
>| ------------------------------------------
>| This patch adds the MCA error info. onto the event log, in the format
>| specified by PSH - Event log interface spec.
>|
>| Project design information
>| --------------------------
>| This project adds a kernel patch to:
>| 1) Log the MCA errors onto event log as per the format defined in
>PSH-Event
>| Log spec.
>| 2) Add the support for logging the additional information available during
>| an MCA in P4 based system.
>|
>| Code location
>| -------------
>| The kernel patch for MCA Handler is located in the cgl development tree
>| under kernel/linux-2.4.18/patches/mca_log
>| _______________________________________________
>
>Hi Venkatesh,
>
>For Pentium 4, I think that you could add some real value to MCE reporting
>by decoding the MISC register bits to provide some useful information
>to users or whoever is trying to support a system after an MCE
>event occurs.  How about it?
>
>  
>