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Print more information about MCE error whether it is an hardware or software error. Some of the MCE errors can be easily categorized as hardware or software errors e.g. UEs are due to hardware error, where as error triggered due to invalid usage of tlbie is a pure software bug. But not all the MCE errors can be easily categorize into either software or hardware. There are errors like multihit errors which are usually result of a software bug, but in some rare cases a hardware failure can cause a multihit error. In past, we have seen case where after replacing faulty chip, multihit errors stopped occurring. Same with parity errors, which are usually due to faulty hardware but there are chances where multihit can also cause an parity error. Such errors are difficult to determine what really caused it. Hence this patch classifies MCE errors into following four categorize: 1. Hardware error: UE and Link timeout failure errors. 2. Probable hardware error (some chance of software cause) SLB/ERAT/TLB Parity errors. 3. Software error Invalid tlbie form. 4. Probable software error (some chance of hardware cause) SLB/ERAT/TLB Multihit errors. Sample output: MCE: CPU80: machine check (Warning) Guest SLB Multihit DAR: 000001001b6e0320 [Recovered] MCE: CPU80: PID: 24765 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Guest NIP: [00007fffa309dc60] MCE: CPU80: Probable Software error (some chance of hardware cause) Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.