Loading Documentation/edac.txt +29 −27 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ exports one For injecting a memory error, there are some sysfs nodes, under /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc?/: inject_addrmatch: inject_addrmatch/*: Controls the error injection mask register. It is possible to specify several characteristics of the address to match an error code: dimm = the affected dimm. Numbers are relative to a channel; Loading @@ -781,10 +781,12 @@ exports one For example, to generate an error at rank 1 of dimm 2, for any channel, any bank, any page, any column: echo "dimm:2 rank:1" >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank To return to the default behaviour of matching any, you can do: echo "dimm:any rank:any" >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank inject_eccmask: specifies what bits will have troubles, Loading Loading @@ -813,7 +815,7 @@ exports one For example, the following code will generate an error for any write access at socket 0, on any DIMM/address on channel 2: echo "channel:2" > /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/channel echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_type echo 64 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_eccmask echo 3 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_section Loading @@ -829,18 +831,23 @@ exports one 3) Nehalem specific Corrected Error memory counters Nehalem have some registers to count memory errors, reporting it on a way that it is different from what EDAC API allows. Due to that, a separate sysfs note were created to handle such counters. Nehalem have some registers to count memory errors. The driver uses those registers to report Corrected Errors on devices with Registered Dimms. They can be read by looking at the contents of "corrected_error_counts" counter. Due to hardware limits, the output is different on machines with unregistered memories and machines with registered ones. However, those counters don't work with Unregistered Dimms. As the chipset offers some counters that also work with UDIMMS (but with a worse level of granularity than the default ones), the driver exposes those registers for UDIMM memories. With unregistered memories, it outputs: They can be read by looking at the contents of all_channel_counts/ $ cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/corrected_error_counts all channels UDIMM0: 0 UDIMM1: 0 UDIMM2: 0 $ for i in /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/*; do echo $i; cat $i; done /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm0 0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm1 0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm2 0 What happens here is that errors on different csrows, but at the same dimm number will increment the same counter. Loading @@ -849,21 +856,16 @@ exports one csrow1: channel 0, dimm1 csrow2: channel 1, dimm0 csrow3: channel 2, dimm0 The hardware will increment UDIMM0 for an error at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3. With registered memories, it outputs: $cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/corrected_error_counts channel 0 RDIMM0: 0 RDIMM1: 0 RDIMM2: 0 channel 1 RDIMM0: 0 RDIMM1: 0 RDIMM2: 0 channel 2 RDIMM0: 0 RDIMM1: 0 RDIMM2: 0 So, with registered memories, there's a direct map between a csrow and a counter. The hardware will increment udimm0 for an error at the first dimm at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; The hardware will increment udimm1 for an error at the second dimm at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; The hardware will increment udimm2 for an error at the third dimm at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; 4) Standard error counters The standard error counters are generated when an mcelog error is received by the driver. Since it is counted by software, it is possible that some errors could be lost. by the driver. Since, with udimm, this is counted by software, it is possible that some errors could be lost. With rdimm's, they displays the contents of the registers Loading
Documentation/edac.txt +29 −27 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ exports one For injecting a memory error, there are some sysfs nodes, under /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc?/: inject_addrmatch: inject_addrmatch/*: Controls the error injection mask register. It is possible to specify several characteristics of the address to match an error code: dimm = the affected dimm. Numbers are relative to a channel; Loading @@ -781,10 +781,12 @@ exports one For example, to generate an error at rank 1 of dimm 2, for any channel, any bank, any page, any column: echo "dimm:2 rank:1" >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank To return to the default behaviour of matching any, you can do: echo "dimm:any rank:any" >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank inject_eccmask: specifies what bits will have troubles, Loading Loading @@ -813,7 +815,7 @@ exports one For example, the following code will generate an error for any write access at socket 0, on any DIMM/address on channel 2: echo "channel:2" > /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/channel echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_type echo 64 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_eccmask echo 3 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_section Loading @@ -829,18 +831,23 @@ exports one 3) Nehalem specific Corrected Error memory counters Nehalem have some registers to count memory errors, reporting it on a way that it is different from what EDAC API allows. Due to that, a separate sysfs note were created to handle such counters. Nehalem have some registers to count memory errors. The driver uses those registers to report Corrected Errors on devices with Registered Dimms. They can be read by looking at the contents of "corrected_error_counts" counter. Due to hardware limits, the output is different on machines with unregistered memories and machines with registered ones. However, those counters don't work with Unregistered Dimms. As the chipset offers some counters that also work with UDIMMS (but with a worse level of granularity than the default ones), the driver exposes those registers for UDIMM memories. With unregistered memories, it outputs: They can be read by looking at the contents of all_channel_counts/ $ cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/corrected_error_counts all channels UDIMM0: 0 UDIMM1: 0 UDIMM2: 0 $ for i in /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/*; do echo $i; cat $i; done /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm0 0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm1 0 /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm2 0 What happens here is that errors on different csrows, but at the same dimm number will increment the same counter. Loading @@ -849,21 +856,16 @@ exports one csrow1: channel 0, dimm1 csrow2: channel 1, dimm0 csrow3: channel 2, dimm0 The hardware will increment UDIMM0 for an error at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3. With registered memories, it outputs: $cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/corrected_error_counts channel 0 RDIMM0: 0 RDIMM1: 0 RDIMM2: 0 channel 1 RDIMM0: 0 RDIMM1: 0 RDIMM2: 0 channel 2 RDIMM0: 0 RDIMM1: 0 RDIMM2: 0 So, with registered memories, there's a direct map between a csrow and a counter. The hardware will increment udimm0 for an error at the first dimm at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; The hardware will increment udimm1 for an error at the second dimm at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; The hardware will increment udimm2 for an error at the third dimm at either csrow0, csrow2 or csrow3; 4) Standard error counters The standard error counters are generated when an mcelog error is received by the driver. Since it is counted by software, it is possible that some errors could be lost. by the driver. Since, with udimm, this is counted by software, it is possible that some errors could be lost. With rdimm's, they displays the contents of the registers