Re: [PATCH] Machine Check Architecture on amd64

* Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I have a simple patch for amd64 that uses the Machine Check
Architecture/Exceptions on most recent x86 CPUs to detect memory errors:

http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/mce-20070621.diff

It will report uncorrected and corrected errors (the latter, only if sysctl
machdep.mce.log_corrected=1).
You can ask the kernel to panic if it gets an uncorrected error by setting
machdep.mce.panic_on_uc=1.
All this can be disabled by setting the machdep.mce.enable tunable to 0. I'm
still not sure if I want this enabled by default, as I don't have any Intel
machines to test this on, but I have tested it on Opteron (both corrected
and uncorrected errors).

I would appreciate it if someone would try this, especially if you have
Intel machines with bad RAM.

Comments are welcome.

| /*
| * Uncorrected MCEs will generate a #MC, while corrected
| * don't, so we have to periodically poll for them.
| */

What about adding an option to only print uncorrected MCE's? That's the
most interesting data and we can get that without using a kthread,
right?

Nice work! :-)

--
Ed Schouten <ed@xxxxxx>
WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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