Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | EDAC - Error Detection And Correction |
| 4 | |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | Written by Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | 7 Dec 2005 |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | 17 Jul 2007 Updated |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | (c) Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> |
| 10 | 05 Aug 2009 Nehalem interface |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | EDAC is maintained and written by: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | Doug Thompson, Dave Jiang, Dave Peterson et al, |
| 15 | original author: Thayne Harbaugh, |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Contact: |
| 18 | website: bluesmoke.sourceforge.net |
| 19 | mailing list: bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net |
| 20 | |
| 21 | "bluesmoke" was the name for this device driver when it was "out-of-tree" |
| 22 | and maintained at sourceforge.net. When it was pushed into 2.6.16 for the |
| 23 | first time, it was renamed to 'EDAC'. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area' |
| 26 | for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org |
| 27 | |
Matt LaPlante | 19f5946 | 2009-04-27 15:06:31 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against |
| 29 | recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | is also a tarball snapshot available. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
| 32 | ============================================================================ |
| 33 | EDAC PURPOSE |
| 34 | |
| 35 | The 'edac' kernel module goal is to detect and report errors that occur |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | within the computer system running under linux. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | MEMORY |
| 39 | |
| 40 | In the initial release, memory Correctable Errors (CE) and Uncorrectable |
| 41 | Errors (UE) are the primary errors being harvested. These types of errors |
| 42 | are harvested by the 'edac_mc' class of device. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | |
| 44 | Detecting CE events, then harvesting those events and reporting them, |
| 45 | CAN be a predictor of future UE events. With CE events, the system can |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | continue to operate, but with less safety. Preventive maintenance and |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | proactive part replacement of memory DIMMs exhibiting CEs can reduce |
| 48 | the likelihood of the dreaded UE events and system 'panics'. |
| 49 | |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | NON-MEMORY |
| 51 | |
| 52 | A new feature for EDAC, the edac_device class of device, was added in |
| 53 | the 2.6.23 version of the kernel. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | This new device type allows for non-memory type of ECC hardware detectors |
| 56 | to have their states harvested and presented to userspace via the sysfs |
| 57 | interface. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | Some architectures have ECC detectors for L1, L2 and L3 caches, along with DMA |
| 60 | engines, fabric switches, main data path switches, interconnections, |
| 61 | and various other hardware data paths. If the hardware reports it, then |
| 62 | a edac_device device probably can be constructed to harvest and present |
| 63 | that to userspace. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 | PCI BUS SCANNING |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | |
| 68 | In addition, PCI Bus Parity and SERR Errors are scanned for on PCI devices |
| 69 | in order to determine if errors are occurring on data transfers. |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | The presence of PCI Parity errors must be examined with a grain of salt. |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | There are several add-in adapters that do NOT follow the PCI specification |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | with regards to Parity generation and reporting. The specification says |
| 74 | the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend |
| 75 | to generate parity. Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit |
| 76 | can "float" giving false positives. |
| 77 | |
Matt LaPlante | 19f5946 | 2009-04-27 15:06:31 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set, |
Matt LaPlante | 19f5946 | 2009-04-27 15:06:31 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | is: |
| 82 | |
| 83 | broken_parity_status |
| 84 | |
Davidlohr Bueso | e281d75 | 2009-11-04 15:30:34 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | as is located in /sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z directories for |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | PCI devices. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | FUTURE HARDWARE SCANNING |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | EDAC will have future error detectors that will be integrated with |
| 91 | EDAC or added to it, in the following list: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | |
| 93 | MCE Machine Check Exception |
| 94 | MCA Machine Check Architecture |
| 95 | NMI NMI notification of ECC errors |
| 96 | MSRs Machine Specific Register error cases |
| 97 | and other mechanisms. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | These errors are usually bus errors, ECC errors, thermal throttling |
| 100 | and the like. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | |
| 103 | ============================================================================ |
| 104 | EDAC VERSIONING |
| 105 | |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | EDAC is composed of a "core" module (edac_core.ko) and several Memory |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | Controller (MC) driver modules. On a given system, the CORE |
| 108 | is loaded and one MC driver will be loaded. Both the CORE and |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | the MC driver (or edac_device driver) have individual versions that reflect |
| 110 | current release level of their respective modules. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | Thus, to "report" on what version a system is running, one must report both |
| 113 | the CORE's and the MC driver's versions. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | |
| 115 | |
| 116 | LOADING |
| 117 | |
| 118 | If 'edac' was statically linked with the kernel then no loading is |
| 119 | necessary. If 'edac' was built as modules then simply modprobe the |
| 120 | 'edac' pieces that you need. You should be able to modprobe |
| 121 | hardware-specific modules and have the dependencies load the necessary core |
| 122 | modules. |
| 123 | |
| 124 | Example: |
| 125 | |
| 126 | $> modprobe amd76x_edac |
| 127 | |
| 128 | loads both the amd76x_edac.ko memory controller module and the edac_mc.ko |
| 129 | core module. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | |
| 132 | ============================================================================ |
| 133 | EDAC sysfs INTERFACE |
| 134 | |
| 135 | EDAC presents a 'sysfs' interface for control, reporting and attribute |
| 136 | reporting purposes. |
| 137 | |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | EDAC lives in the /sys/devices/system/edac directory. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | Within this directory there currently reside 2 'edac' components: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | |
| 142 | mc memory controller(s) system |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | pci PCI control and status system |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | |
| 145 | |
| 146 | ============================================================================ |
| 147 | Memory Controller (mc) Model |
| 148 | |
| 149 | First a background on the memory controller's model abstracted in EDAC. |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | Each 'mc' device controls a set of DIMM memory modules. These modules are |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 151 | laid out in a Chip-Select Row (csrowX) and Channel table (chX). There can |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | be multiple csrows and multiple channels. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | |
| 154 | Memory controllers allow for several csrows, with 8 csrows being a typical value. |
| 155 | Yet, the actual number of csrows depends on the electrical "loading" |
| 156 | of a given motherboard, memory controller and DIMM characteristics. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | Dual channels allows for 128 bit data transfers to the CPU from memory. |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | Some newer chipsets allow for more than 2 channels, like Fully Buffered DIMMs |
| 160 | (FB-DIMMs). The following example will assume 2 channels: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | |
| 162 | |
| 163 | Channel 0 Channel 1 |
| 164 | =================================== |
| 165 | csrow0 | DIMM_A0 | DIMM_B0 | |
| 166 | csrow1 | DIMM_A0 | DIMM_B0 | |
| 167 | =================================== |
| 168 | |
| 169 | =================================== |
| 170 | csrow2 | DIMM_A1 | DIMM_B1 | |
| 171 | csrow3 | DIMM_A1 | DIMM_B1 | |
| 172 | =================================== |
| 173 | |
| 174 | In the above example table there are 4 physical slots on the motherboard |
| 175 | for memory DIMMs: |
| 176 | |
| 177 | DIMM_A0 |
| 178 | DIMM_B0 |
| 179 | DIMM_A1 |
| 180 | DIMM_B1 |
| 181 | |
| 182 | Labels for these slots are usually silk screened on the motherboard. Slots |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | labeled 'A' are channel 0 in this example. Slots labeled 'B' |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | are channel 1. Notice that there are two csrows possible on a |
| 185 | physical DIMM. These csrows are allocated their csrow assignment |
| 186 | based on the slot into which the memory DIMM is placed. Thus, when 1 DIMM |
| 187 | is placed in each Channel, the csrows cross both DIMMs. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | Memory DIMMs come single or dual "ranked". A rank is a populated csrow. |
| 190 | Thus, 2 single ranked DIMMs, placed in slots DIMM_A0 and DIMM_B0 above |
| 191 | will have 1 csrow, csrow0. csrow1 will be empty. On the other hand, |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | when 2 dual ranked DIMMs are similarly placed, then both csrow0 and |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | csrow1 will be populated. The pattern repeats itself for csrow2 and |
| 194 | csrow3. |
| 195 | |
| 196 | The representation of the above is reflected in the directory tree |
| 197 | in EDAC's sysfs interface. Starting in directory |
| 198 | /sys/devices/system/edac/mc each memory controller will be represented |
Raoul Bhatia | 5989f11 | 2010-11-25 17:32:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | by its own 'mcX' directory, where 'X' is the index of the MC. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | |
| 201 | |
| 202 | ..../edac/mc/ |
| 203 | | |
| 204 | |->mc0 |
| 205 | |->mc1 |
| 206 | |->mc2 |
| 207 | .... |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Under each 'mcX' directory each 'csrowX' is again represented by a |
Raoul Bhatia | 5989f11 | 2010-11-25 17:32:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | 'csrowX', where 'X' is the csrow index: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | |
| 212 | |
| 213 | .../mc/mc0/ |
| 214 | | |
| 215 | |->csrow0 |
| 216 | |->csrow2 |
| 217 | |->csrow3 |
| 218 | .... |
| 219 | |
| 220 | Notice that there is no csrow1, which indicates that csrow0 is |
| 221 | composed of a single ranked DIMMs. This should also apply in both |
| 222 | Channels, in order to have dual-channel mode be operational. Since |
| 223 | both csrow2 and csrow3 are populated, this indicates a dual ranked |
| 224 | set of DIMMs for channels 0 and 1. |
| 225 | |
| 226 | |
Arthur Jones | 327dafb | 2008-07-25 01:49:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | Within each of the 'mcX' and 'csrowX' directories are several |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 228 | EDAC control and attribute files. |
| 229 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | ============================================================================ |
| 231 | 'mcX' DIRECTORIES |
| 232 | |
| 233 | |
| 234 | In 'mcX' directories are EDAC control and attribute files for |
Raoul Bhatia | 5989f11 | 2010-11-25 17:32:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | this 'X' instance of the memory controllers: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | |
| 237 | |
| 238 | Counter reset control file: |
| 239 | |
| 240 | 'reset_counters' |
| 241 | |
| 242 | This write-only control file will zero all the statistical counters |
| 243 | for UE and CE errors. Zeroing the counters will also reset the timer |
| 244 | indicating how long since the last counter zero. This is useful |
| 245 | for computing errors/time. Since the counters are always reset at |
| 246 | driver initialization time, no module/kernel parameter is available. |
| 247 | |
| 248 | RUN TIME: echo "anything" >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/counter_reset |
| 249 | |
| 250 | This resets the counters on memory controller 0 |
| 251 | |
| 252 | |
| 253 | Seconds since last counter reset control file: |
| 254 | |
| 255 | 'seconds_since_reset' |
| 256 | |
| 257 | This attribute file displays how many seconds have elapsed since the |
| 258 | last counter reset. This can be used with the error counters to |
| 259 | measure error rates. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | |
| 262 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | Memory Controller name attribute file: |
| 264 | |
| 265 | 'mc_name' |
| 266 | |
| 267 | This attribute file displays the type of memory controller |
| 268 | that is being utilized. |
| 269 | |
| 270 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | Total memory managed by this memory controller attribute file: |
| 272 | |
| 273 | 'size_mb' |
| 274 | |
| 275 | This attribute file displays, in count of megabytes, of memory |
| 276 | that this instance of memory controller manages. |
| 277 | |
| 278 | |
| 279 | Total Uncorrectable Errors count attribute file: |
| 280 | |
| 281 | 'ue_count' |
| 282 | |
| 283 | This attribute file displays the total count of uncorrectable |
| 284 | errors that have occurred on this memory controller. If panic_on_ue |
| 285 | is set this counter will not have a chance to increment, |
| 286 | since EDAC will panic the system. |
| 287 | |
| 288 | |
| 289 | Total UE count that had no information attribute fileY: |
| 290 | |
| 291 | 'ue_noinfo_count' |
| 292 | |
Davidlohr Bueso | e281d75 | 2009-11-04 15:30:34 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | This attribute file displays the number of UEs that have occurred |
| 294 | with no information as to which DIMM slot is having errors. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | |
| 296 | |
| 297 | Total Correctable Errors count attribute file: |
| 298 | |
| 299 | 'ce_count' |
| 300 | |
| 301 | This attribute file displays the total count of correctable |
| 302 | errors that have occurred on this memory controller. This |
| 303 | count is very important to examine. CEs provide early |
| 304 | indications that a DIMM is beginning to fail. This count |
| 305 | field should be monitored for non-zero values and report |
| 306 | such information to the system administrator. |
| 307 | |
| 308 | |
| 309 | Total Correctable Errors count attribute file: |
| 310 | |
| 311 | 'ce_noinfo_count' |
| 312 | |
| 313 | This attribute file displays the number of CEs that |
| 314 | have occurred wherewith no informations as to which DIMM slot |
| 315 | is having errors. Memory is handicapped, but operational, |
| 316 | yet no information is available to indicate which slot |
| 317 | the failing memory is in. This count field should be also |
| 318 | be monitored for non-zero values. |
| 319 | |
| 320 | Device Symlink: |
| 321 | |
| 322 | 'device' |
| 323 | |
Frithiof Jensen | 4f423dd | 2007-02-12 00:53:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | Symlink to the memory controller device. |
| 325 | |
| 326 | Sdram memory scrubbing rate: |
| 327 | |
| 328 | 'sdram_scrub_rate' |
| 329 | |
| 330 | Read/Write attribute file that controls memory scrubbing. The scrubbing |
Matt LaPlante | d919588 | 2008-07-25 19:45:33 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | rate is set by writing a minimum bandwidth in bytes/sec to the attribute |
Frithiof Jensen | 4f423dd | 2007-02-12 00:53:07 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | file. The rate will be translated to an internal value that gives at |
| 333 | least the specified rate. |
| 334 | |
| 335 | Reading the file will return the actual scrubbing rate employed. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | If configuration fails or memory scrubbing is not implemented, the value |
| 338 | of the attribute file will be -1. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 339 | |
| 340 | |
| 341 | |
| 342 | ============================================================================ |
| 343 | 'csrowX' DIRECTORIES |
| 344 | |
| 345 | In the 'csrowX' directories are EDAC control and attribute files for |
Raoul Bhatia | 5989f11 | 2010-11-25 17:32:47 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 346 | this 'X' instance of csrow: |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 347 | |
| 348 | |
| 349 | Total Uncorrectable Errors count attribute file: |
| 350 | |
| 351 | 'ue_count' |
| 352 | |
| 353 | This attribute file displays the total count of uncorrectable |
| 354 | errors that have occurred on this csrow. If panic_on_ue is set |
| 355 | this counter will not have a chance to increment, since EDAC |
| 356 | will panic the system. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | |
| 359 | Total Correctable Errors count attribute file: |
| 360 | |
| 361 | 'ce_count' |
| 362 | |
| 363 | This attribute file displays the total count of correctable |
| 364 | errors that have occurred on this csrow. This |
| 365 | count is very important to examine. CEs provide early |
| 366 | indications that a DIMM is beginning to fail. This count |
| 367 | field should be monitored for non-zero values and report |
| 368 | such information to the system administrator. |
| 369 | |
| 370 | |
| 371 | Total memory managed by this csrow attribute file: |
| 372 | |
| 373 | 'size_mb' |
| 374 | |
| 375 | This attribute file displays, in count of megabytes, of memory |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | that this csrow contains. |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | |
| 378 | |
| 379 | Memory Type attribute file: |
| 380 | |
| 381 | 'mem_type' |
| 382 | |
| 383 | This attribute file will display what type of memory is currently |
| 384 | on this csrow. Normally, either buffered or unbuffered memory. |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | Examples: |
| 386 | Registered-DDR |
| 387 | Unbuffered-DDR |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | |
| 389 | |
| 390 | EDAC Mode of operation attribute file: |
| 391 | |
| 392 | 'edac_mode' |
| 393 | |
| 394 | This attribute file will display what type of Error detection |
| 395 | and correction is being utilized. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | |
| 398 | Device type attribute file: |
| 399 | |
| 400 | 'dev_type' |
| 401 | |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | This attribute file will display what type of DRAM device is |
| 403 | being utilized on this DIMM. |
| 404 | Examples: |
| 405 | x1 |
| 406 | x2 |
| 407 | x4 |
| 408 | x8 |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 409 | |
| 410 | |
| 411 | Channel 0 CE Count attribute file: |
| 412 | |
| 413 | 'ch0_ce_count' |
| 414 | |
| 415 | This attribute file will display the count of CEs on this |
| 416 | DIMM located in channel 0. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | |
| 419 | Channel 0 UE Count attribute file: |
| 420 | |
| 421 | 'ch0_ue_count' |
| 422 | |
| 423 | This attribute file will display the count of UEs on this |
| 424 | DIMM located in channel 0. |
| 425 | |
| 426 | |
| 427 | Channel 0 DIMM Label control file: |
| 428 | |
| 429 | 'ch0_dimm_label' |
| 430 | |
| 431 | This control file allows this DIMM to have a label assigned |
| 432 | to it. With this label in the module, when errors occur |
| 433 | the output can provide the DIMM label in the system log. |
| 434 | This becomes vital for panic events to isolate the |
| 435 | cause of the UE event. |
| 436 | |
| 437 | DIMM Labels must be assigned after booting, with information |
| 438 | that correctly identifies the physical slot with its |
| 439 | silk screen label. This information is currently very |
| 440 | motherboard specific and determination of this information |
| 441 | must occur in userland at this time. |
| 442 | |
| 443 | |
| 444 | Channel 1 CE Count attribute file: |
| 445 | |
| 446 | 'ch1_ce_count' |
| 447 | |
| 448 | This attribute file will display the count of CEs on this |
| 449 | DIMM located in channel 1. |
| 450 | |
| 451 | |
| 452 | Channel 1 UE Count attribute file: |
| 453 | |
| 454 | 'ch1_ue_count' |
| 455 | |
| 456 | This attribute file will display the count of UEs on this |
| 457 | DIMM located in channel 0. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | |
| 460 | Channel 1 DIMM Label control file: |
| 461 | |
| 462 | 'ch1_dimm_label' |
| 463 | |
| 464 | This control file allows this DIMM to have a label assigned |
| 465 | to it. With this label in the module, when errors occur |
| 466 | the output can provide the DIMM label in the system log. |
| 467 | This becomes vital for panic events to isolate the |
| 468 | cause of the UE event. |
| 469 | |
| 470 | DIMM Labels must be assigned after booting, with information |
| 471 | that correctly identifies the physical slot with its |
| 472 | silk screen label. This information is currently very |
| 473 | motherboard specific and determination of this information |
| 474 | must occur in userland at this time. |
| 475 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | ============================================================================ |
| 477 | SYSTEM LOGGING |
| 478 | |
| 479 | If logging for UEs and CEs are enabled then system logs will have |
| 480 | error notices indicating errors that have been detected: |
| 481 | |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | EDAC MC0: CE page 0x283, offset 0xce0, grain 8, syndrome 0x6ec3, row 0, |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | channel 1 "DIMM_B1": amd76x_edac |
| 484 | |
Doug Thompson | 49c0dab7 | 2006-07-10 04:45:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 485 | EDAC MC0: CE page 0x1e5, offset 0xfb0, grain 8, syndrome 0xb741, row 0, |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | channel 1 "DIMM_B1": amd76x_edac |
| 487 | |
| 488 | |
| 489 | The structure of the message is: |
| 490 | the memory controller (MC0) |
| 491 | Error type (CE) |
| 492 | memory page (0x283) |
| 493 | offset in the page (0xce0) |
| 494 | the byte granularity (grain 8) |
| 495 | or resolution of the error |
| 496 | the error syndrome (0xb741) |
| 497 | memory row (row 0) |
| 498 | memory channel (channel 1) |
| 499 | DIMM label, if set prior (DIMM B1 |
| 500 | and then an optional, driver-specific message that may |
| 501 | have additional information. |
| 502 | |
| 503 | Both UEs and CEs with no info will lack all but memory controller, |
| 504 | error type, a notice of "no info" and then an optional, |
| 505 | driver-specific error message. |
| 506 | |
| 507 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 508 | ============================================================================ |
| 509 | PCI Bus Parity Detection |
| 510 | |
| 511 | |
| 512 | On Header Type 00 devices the primary status is looked at |
| 513 | for any parity error regardless of whether Parity is enabled on the |
| 514 | device. (The spec indicates parity is generated in some cases). |
| 515 | On Header Type 01 bridges, the secondary status register is also |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | looked at to see if parity occurred on the bus on the other side of |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 517 | the bridge. |
| 518 | |
| 519 | |
| 520 | SYSFS CONFIGURATION |
| 521 | |
| 522 | Under /sys/devices/system/edac/pci are control and attribute files as follows: |
| 523 | |
| 524 | |
| 525 | Enable/Disable PCI Parity checking control file: |
| 526 | |
| 527 | 'check_pci_parity' |
| 528 | |
| 529 | |
| 530 | This control file enables or disables the PCI Bus Parity scanning |
| 531 | operation. Writing a 1 to this file enables the scanning. Writing |
| 532 | a 0 to this file disables the scanning. |
| 533 | |
| 534 | Enable: |
| 535 | echo "1" >/sys/devices/system/edac/pci/check_pci_parity |
| 536 | |
| 537 | Disable: |
| 538 | echo "0" >/sys/devices/system/edac/pci/check_pci_parity |
| 539 | |
| 540 | |
Arthur Jones | 327dafb | 2008-07-25 01:49:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | Parity Count: |
| 542 | |
| 543 | 'pci_parity_count' |
| 544 | |
| 545 | This attribute file will display the number of parity errors that |
| 546 | have been detected. |
| 547 | |
| 548 | |
| 549 | ============================================================================ |
| 550 | MODULE PARAMETERS |
| 551 | |
| 552 | Panic on UE control file: |
| 553 | |
| 554 | 'edac_mc_panic_on_ue' |
| 555 | |
| 556 | An uncorrectable error will cause a machine panic. This is usually |
| 557 | desirable. It is a bad idea to continue when an uncorrectable error |
| 558 | occurs - it is indeterminate what was uncorrected and the operating |
| 559 | system context might be so mangled that continuing will lead to further |
| 560 | corruption. If the kernel has MCE configured, then EDAC will never |
| 561 | notice the UE. |
| 562 | |
| 563 | LOAD TIME: module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_panic_on_ue=[0|1] |
| 564 | |
| 565 | RUN TIME: echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_panic_on_ue |
| 566 | |
| 567 | |
| 568 | Log UE control file: |
| 569 | |
| 570 | 'edac_mc_log_ue' |
| 571 | |
| 572 | Generate kernel messages describing uncorrectable errors. These errors |
| 573 | are reported through the system message log system. UE statistics |
| 574 | will be accumulated even when UE logging is disabled. |
| 575 | |
| 576 | LOAD TIME: module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_log_ue=[0|1] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | RUN TIME: echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_log_ue |
| 579 | |
| 580 | |
| 581 | Log CE control file: |
| 582 | |
| 583 | 'edac_mc_log_ce' |
| 584 | |
| 585 | Generate kernel messages describing correctable errors. These |
| 586 | errors are reported through the system message log system. |
| 587 | CE statistics will be accumulated even when CE logging is disabled. |
| 588 | |
| 589 | LOAD TIME: module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_log_ce=[0|1] |
| 590 | |
| 591 | RUN TIME: echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_log_ce |
| 592 | |
| 593 | |
| 594 | Polling period control file: |
| 595 | |
| 596 | 'edac_mc_poll_msec' |
| 597 | |
| 598 | The time period, in milliseconds, for polling for error information. |
| 599 | Too small a value wastes resources. Too large a value might delay |
| 600 | necessary handling of errors and might loose valuable information for |
| 601 | locating the error. 1000 milliseconds (once each second) is the current |
| 602 | default. Systems which require all the bandwidth they can get, may |
| 603 | increase this. |
| 604 | |
| 605 | LOAD TIME: module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_poll_msec=[0|1] |
| 606 | |
| 607 | RUN TIME: echo "1000" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_poll_msec |
| 608 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | |
| 610 | Panic on PCI PARITY Error: |
| 611 | |
| 612 | 'panic_on_pci_parity' |
| 613 | |
| 614 | |
Dave Peterson | f347981 | 2006-03-26 01:38:53 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 615 | This control files enables or disables panicking when a parity |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 616 | error has been detected. |
| 617 | |
| 618 | |
Arthur Jones | 327dafb | 2008-07-25 01:49:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 619 | module/kernel parameter: edac_panic_on_pci_pe=[0|1] |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 620 | |
| 621 | Enable: |
Arthur Jones | 327dafb | 2008-07-25 01:49:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_panic_on_pci_pe |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 623 | |
| 624 | Disable: |
Arthur Jones | 327dafb | 2008-07-25 01:49:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 625 | echo "0" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_panic_on_pci_pe |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 626 | |
| 627 | |
| 628 | |
Alan Cox | da9bb1d | 2006-01-18 17:44:13 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 629 | ======================================================================= |
Doug Thompson | 87f24c3 | 2007-07-19 01:50:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 630 | |
| 631 | |
| 632 | EDAC_DEVICE type of device |
| 633 | |
| 634 | In the header file, edac_core.h, there is a series of edac_device structures |
| 635 | and APIs for the EDAC_DEVICE. |
| 636 | |
| 637 | User space access to an edac_device is through the sysfs interface. |
| 638 | |
| 639 | At the location /sys/devices/system/edac (sysfs) new edac_device devices will |
| 640 | appear. |
| 641 | |
| 642 | There is a three level tree beneath the above 'edac' directory. For example, |
| 643 | the 'test_device_edac' device (found at the bluesmoke.sourceforget.net website) |
| 644 | installs itself as: |
| 645 | |
| 646 | /sys/devices/systm/edac/test-instance |
| 647 | |
| 648 | in this directory are various controls, a symlink and one or more 'instance' |
| 649 | directorys. |
| 650 | |
| 651 | The standard default controls are: |
| 652 | |
| 653 | log_ce boolean to log CE events |
| 654 | log_ue boolean to log UE events |
| 655 | panic_on_ue boolean to 'panic' the system if an UE is encountered |
| 656 | (default off, can be set true via startup script) |
| 657 | poll_msec time period between POLL cycles for events |
| 658 | |
| 659 | The test_device_edac device adds at least one of its own custom control: |
| 660 | |
| 661 | test_bits which in the current test driver does nothing but |
| 662 | show how it is installed. A ported driver can |
| 663 | add one or more such controls and/or attributes |
| 664 | for specific uses. |
| 665 | One out-of-tree driver uses controls here to allow |
| 666 | for ERROR INJECTION operations to hardware |
| 667 | injection registers |
| 668 | |
| 669 | The symlink points to the 'struct dev' that is registered for this edac_device. |
| 670 | |
| 671 | INSTANCES |
| 672 | |
| 673 | One or more instance directories are present. For the 'test_device_edac' case: |
| 674 | |
| 675 | test-instance0 |
| 676 | |
| 677 | |
| 678 | In this directory there are two default counter attributes, which are totals of |
| 679 | counter in deeper subdirectories. |
| 680 | |
| 681 | ce_count total of CE events of subdirectories |
| 682 | ue_count total of UE events of subdirectories |
| 683 | |
| 684 | BLOCKS |
| 685 | |
| 686 | At the lowest directory level is the 'block' directory. There can be 0, 1 |
| 687 | or more blocks specified in each instance. |
| 688 | |
| 689 | test-block0 |
| 690 | |
| 691 | |
| 692 | In this directory the default attributes are: |
| 693 | |
| 694 | ce_count which is counter of CE events for this 'block' |
| 695 | of hardware being monitored |
| 696 | ue_count which is counter of UE events for this 'block' |
| 697 | of hardware being monitored |
| 698 | |
| 699 | |
| 700 | The 'test_device_edac' device adds 4 attributes and 1 control: |
| 701 | |
| 702 | test-block-bits-0 for every POLL cycle this counter |
| 703 | is incremented |
| 704 | test-block-bits-1 every 10 cycles, this counter is bumped once, |
| 705 | and test-block-bits-0 is set to 0 |
| 706 | test-block-bits-2 every 100 cycles, this counter is bumped once, |
| 707 | and test-block-bits-1 is set to 0 |
| 708 | test-block-bits-3 every 1000 cycles, this counter is bumped once, |
| 709 | and test-block-bits-2 is set to 0 |
| 710 | |
| 711 | |
| 712 | reset-counters writing ANY thing to this control will |
| 713 | reset all the above counters. |
| 714 | |
| 715 | |
| 716 | Use of the 'test_device_edac' driver should any others to create their own |
| 717 | unique drivers for their hardware systems. |
| 718 | |
| 719 | The 'test_device_edac' sample driver is located at the |
| 720 | bluesmoke.sourceforge.net project site for EDAC. |
| 721 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 722 | ======================================================================= |
| 723 | NEHALEM USAGE OF EDAC APIs |
| 724 | |
| 725 | This chapter documents some EXPERIMENTAL mappings for EDAC API to handle |
| 726 | Nehalem EDAC driver. They will likely be changed on future versions |
| 727 | of the driver. |
| 728 | |
| 729 | Due to the way Nehalem exports Memory Controller data, some adjustments |
| 730 | were done at i7core_edac driver. This chapter will cover those differences |
| 731 | |
| 732 | 1) On Nehalem, there are one Memory Controller per Quick Patch Interconnect |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 733 | (QPI). At the driver, the term "socket" means one QPI. This is |
| 734 | associated with a physical CPU socket. |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 735 | |
| 736 | Each MC have 3 physical read channels, 3 physical write channels and |
| 737 | 3 logic channels. The driver currenty sees it as just 3 channels. |
| 738 | Each channel can have up to 3 DIMMs. |
| 739 | |
| 740 | The minimum known unity is DIMMs. There are no information about csrows. |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 741 | As EDAC API maps the minimum unity is csrows, the driver sequencially |
| 742 | maps channel/dimm into different csrows. |
| 743 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 25985ed | 2011-03-30 22:57:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame^] | 744 | For example, supposing the following layout: |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 745 | Ch0 phy rd0, wr0 (0x063f4031): 2 ranks, UDIMMs |
| 746 | dimm 0 1024 Mb offset: 0, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400 |
| 747 | dimm 1 1024 Mb offset: 4, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400 |
| 748 | Ch1 phy rd1, wr1 (0x063f4031): 2 ranks, UDIMMs |
| 749 | dimm 0 1024 Mb offset: 0, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400 |
| 750 | Ch2 phy rd3, wr3 (0x063f4031): 2 ranks, UDIMMs |
| 751 | dimm 0 1024 Mb offset: 0, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400 |
| 752 | The driver will map it as: |
| 753 | csrow0: channel 0, dimm0 |
| 754 | csrow1: channel 0, dimm1 |
| 755 | csrow2: channel 1, dimm0 |
| 756 | csrow3: channel 2, dimm0 |
| 757 | |
| 758 | exports one |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 759 | DIMM per csrow. |
| 760 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 761 | Each QPI is exported as a different memory controller. |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 762 | |
| 763 | 2) Nehalem MC has the hability to generate errors. The driver implements this |
| 764 | functionality via some error injection nodes: |
| 765 | |
| 766 | For injecting a memory error, there are some sysfs nodes, under |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 767 | /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc?/: |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 768 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 769 | inject_addrmatch/*: |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 770 | Controls the error injection mask register. It is possible to specify |
| 771 | several characteristics of the address to match an error code: |
| 772 | dimm = the affected dimm. Numbers are relative to a channel; |
| 773 | rank = the memory rank; |
| 774 | channel = the channel that will generate an error; |
| 775 | bank = the affected bank; |
| 776 | page = the page address; |
| 777 | column (or col) = the address column. |
| 778 | each of the above values can be set to "any" to match any valid value. |
| 779 | |
| 780 | At driver init, all values are set to any. |
| 781 | |
| 782 | For example, to generate an error at rank 1 of dimm 2, for any channel, |
| 783 | any bank, any page, any column: |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 784 | echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm |
| 785 | echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 786 | |
| 787 | To return to the default behaviour of matching any, you can do: |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 788 | echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm |
| 789 | echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 790 | |
| 791 | inject_eccmask: |
| 792 | specifies what bits will have troubles, |
| 793 | |
| 794 | inject_section: |
| 795 | specifies what ECC cache section will get the error: |
| 796 | 3 for both |
| 797 | 2 for the highest |
| 798 | 1 for the lowest |
| 799 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 800 | inject_type: |
| 801 | specifies the type of error, being a combination of the following bits: |
| 802 | bit 0 - repeat |
| 803 | bit 1 - ecc |
| 804 | bit 2 - parity |
| 805 | |
| 806 | inject_enable starts the error generation when something different |
| 807 | than 0 is written. |
| 808 | |
| 809 | All inject vars can be read. root permission is needed for write. |
| 810 | |
| 811 | Datasheet states that the error will only be generated after a write on an |
| 812 | address that matches inject_addrmatch. It seems, however, that reading will |
| 813 | also produce an error. |
| 814 | |
| 815 | For example, the following code will generate an error for any write access |
| 816 | at socket 0, on any DIMM/address on channel 2: |
| 817 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 818 | echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/channel |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 819 | echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_type |
| 820 | echo 64 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_eccmask |
| 821 | echo 3 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_section |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 822 | echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_enable |
| 823 | dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null seek=16k bs=4k count=1 >& /dev/null |
| 824 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 825 | For socket 1, it is needed to replace "mc0" by "mc1" at the above |
| 826 | commands. |
| 827 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 828 | The generated error message will look like: |
| 829 | |
| 830 | EDAC MC0: UE row 0, channel-a= 0 channel-b= 0 labels "-": NON_FATAL (addr = 0x0075b980, socket=0, Dimm=0, Channel=2, syndrome=0x00000040, count=1, Err=8c0000400001009f:4000080482 (read error: read ECC error)) |
| 831 | |
| 832 | 3) Nehalem specific Corrected Error memory counters |
| 833 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 834 | Nehalem have some registers to count memory errors. The driver uses those |
| 835 | registers to report Corrected Errors on devices with Registered Dimms. |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 836 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 837 | However, those counters don't work with Unregistered Dimms. As the chipset |
| 838 | offers some counters that also work with UDIMMS (but with a worse level of |
| 839 | granularity than the default ones), the driver exposes those registers for |
| 840 | UDIMM memories. |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 841 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 842 | They can be read by looking at the contents of all_channel_counts/ |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 31983a0 | 2009-08-05 21:16:56 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 843 | |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 844 | $ for i in /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/*; do echo $i; cat $i; done |
| 845 | /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm0 |
| 846 | 0 |
| 847 | /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm1 |
| 848 | 0 |
| 849 | /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm2 |
| 850 | 0 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 851 | |
| 852 | What happens here is that errors on different csrows, but at the same |
| 853 | dimm number will increment the same counter. |
| 854 | So, in this memory mapping: |
| 855 | csrow0: channel 0, dimm0 |
| 856 | csrow1: channel 0, dimm1 |
| 857 | csrow2: channel 1, dimm0 |
| 858 | csrow3: channel 2, dimm0 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 859 | The hardware will increment udimm0 for an error at the first dimm at either |
| 860 | csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; |
| 861 | The hardware will increment udimm1 for an error at the second dimm at either |
| 862 | csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; |
| 863 | The hardware will increment udimm2 for an error at the third dimm at either |
| 864 | csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | c344436 | 2009-09-05 05:10:15 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 865 | |
| 866 | 4) Standard error counters |
| 867 | |
| 868 | The standard error counters are generated when an mcelog error is received |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 35be954 | 2009-09-24 17:28:50 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 869 | by the driver. Since, with udimm, this is counted by software, it is |
| 870 | possible that some errors could be lost. With rdimm's, they displays the |
| 871 | contents of the registers |