Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Register MCE notifier for Aldebaran RAS

From: Yazen Ghannam
Date: Fri Sep 24 2021 - 15:46:35 EST


On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:14:15PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 05:23:21PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> > Shouldn't the error still be reported to EDAC for decoding and counting? I
> > think users want this.
>
> You know what happens with users getting ECCs reported, right? They
> think immediately their hw is going bad and start wanting to replace
> it...
>
> So what does actually tell you if you were a simple user and you had 5
> correctable errors in the GPU VRAM?
>

I agree with you in general. But this device isn't really a GPU. And users of
this device seem to want to count *every* error, at least for now.

> All you wanna do is play, I'd say.
>
> :-)
>

Definitely. :)

Thanks,
Yazen