RE: [PATCH] RAS: Add a tracepoint for reporting memory controllerevents

[Luck, Tony]

> Ok, thus the dynamic granularity. But we're going to end up reporting
> rank and row too so that it can be matched to the DIMM. I consider
> physical address a bonus in such cases and it is only of importance to
> those who like to replace single DRAM chips or single MOSFET transistors
> :-) :-) :-).

Perhaps you don't really need to replace your 32GB DIMM because a single
bit is stuck (one bad bit out of > 300 billion). With the physical address
we can tell Linux to try to stop using the page that contains the stuck
bit - most of the time it can do that.

-Tony
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