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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 06:14:56PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, ok, that is a good example for using the physical address.
Provided, of course, the reported granularity still keeps us within the
page that contained the error. But I think you said earlier that most of
the errors are reported with 4K granularity, so all is fine.

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