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  1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
  2 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
  3 
  4 ==================================================
  5 Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)
  6 ==================================================
  7 
  8 This documents different aspects of the RAS functionality present in the
  9 kernel.
 10 
 11 RAS concepts
 12 ************
 13 
 14 Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) is a concept used on
 15 servers meant to measure their robustness.
 16 
 17 Reliability
 18   is the probability that a system will produce correct outputs.
 19 
 20   * Generally measured as Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
 21   * Enhanced by features that help to avoid, detect and repair hardware faults
 22 
 23 Availability
 24   is the probability that a system is operational at a given time
 25 
 26   * Generally measured as a percentage of downtime per a period of time
 27   * Often uses mechanisms to detect and correct hardware faults in
 28     runtime;
 29 
 30 Serviceability (or maintainability)
 31   is the simplicity and speed with which a system can be repaired or
 32   maintained
 33 
 34   * Generally measured on Mean Time Between Repair (MTBR)
 35 
 36 Improving RAS
 37 -------------
 38 
 39 In order to reduce systems downtime, a system should be capable of detecting
 40 hardware errors, and, when possible correcting them in runtime. It should
 41 also provide mechanisms to detect hardware degradation, in order to warn
 42 the system administrator to take the action of replacing a component before
 43 it causes data loss or system downtime.
 44 
 45 Among the monitoring measures, the most usual ones include:
 46 
 47 * CPU – detect errors at instruction execution and at L1/L2/L3 caches;
 48 * Memory – add error correction logic (ECC) to detect and correct errors;
 49 * I/O – add CRC checksums for transferred data;
 50 * Storage – RAID, journal file systems, checksums,
 51   Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART).
 52 
 53 By monitoring the number of occurrences of error detections, it is possible
 54 to identify if the probability of hardware errors is increasing, and, on such
 55 case, do a preventive maintenance to replace a degraded component while
 56 those errors are correctable.
 57 
 58 Types of errors
 59 ---------------
 60 
 61 Most mechanisms used on modern systems use technologies like Hamming
 62 Codes that allow error correction when the number of errors on a bit packet
 63 is below a threshold. If the number of errors is above, those mechanisms
 64 can indicate with a high degree of confidence that an error happened, but
 65 they can't correct.
 66 
 67 Also, sometimes an error occur on a component that it is not used. For
 68 example, a part of the memory that it is not currently allocated.
 69 
 70 That defines some categories of errors:
 71 
 72 * **Correctable Error (CE)** - the error detection mechanism detected and
 73   corrected the error. Such errors are usually not fatal, although some
 74   Kernel mechanisms allow the system administrator to consider them as fatal.
 75 
 76 * **Uncorrected Error (UE)** - the amount of errors happened above the error
 77   correction threshold, and the system was unable to auto-correct.
 78 
 79 * **Fatal Error** - when an UE error happens on a critical component of the
 80   system (for example, a piece of the Kernel got corrupted by an UE), the
 81   only reliable way to avoid data corruption is to hang or reboot the machine.
 82 
 83 * **Non-fatal Error** - when an UE error happens on an unused component,
 84   like a CPU in power down state or an unused memory bank, the system may
 85   still run, eventually replacing the affected hardware by a hot spare,
 86   if available.
 87 
 88   Also, when an error happens on a userspace process, it is also possible to
 89   kill such process and let userspace restart it.
 90 
 91 The mechanism for handling non-fatal errors is usually complex and may
 92 require the help of some userspace application, in order to apply the
 93 policy desired by the system administrator.
 94 
 95 Identifying a bad hardware component
 96 ------------------------------------
 97 
 98 Just detecting a hardware flaw is usually not enough, as the system needs
 99 to pinpoint to the minimal replaceable unit (MRU) that should be exchanged
100 to make the hardware reliable again.
101 
102 So, it requires not only error logging facilities, but also mechanisms that
103 will translate the error message to the silkscreen or component label for
104 the MRU.
105 
106 Typically, it is very complex for memory, as modern CPUs interlace memory
107 from different memory modules, in order to provide a better performance. The
108 DMI BIOS usually have a list of memory module labels, with can be obtained
109 using the ``dmidecode`` tool. For example, on a desktop machine, it shows::
110 
111         Memory Device
112                 Total Width: 64 bits
113                 Data Width: 64 bits
114                 Size: 16384 MB
115                 Form Factor: SODIMM
116                 Set: None
117                 Locator: ChannelA-DIMM0
118                 Bank Locator: BANK 0
119                 Type: DDR4
120                 Type Detail: Synchronous
121                 Speed: 2133 MHz
122                 Rank: 2
123                 Configured Clock Speed: 2133 MHz
124 
125 On the above example, a DDR4 SO-DIMM memory module is located at the
126 system's memory labeled as "BANK 0", as given by the *bank locator* field.
127 Please notice that, on such system, the *total width* is equal to the
128 *data width*. It means that such memory module doesn't have error
129 detection/correction mechanisms.
130 
131 Unfortunately, not all systems use the same field to specify the memory
132 bank. On this example, from an older server, ``dmidecode`` shows::
133 
134         Memory Device
135                 Array Handle: 0x1000
136                 Error Information Handle: Not Provided
137                 Total Width: 72 bits
138                 Data Width: 64 bits
139                 Size: 8192 MB
140                 Form Factor: DIMM
141                 Set: 1
142                 Locator: DIMM_A1
143                 Bank Locator: Not Specified
144                 Type: DDR3
145                 Type Detail: Synchronous Registered (Buffered)
146                 Speed: 1600 MHz
147                 Rank: 2
148                 Configured Clock Speed: 1600 MHz
149 
150 There, the DDR3 RDIMM memory module is located at the system's memory labeled
151 as "DIMM_A1", as given by the *locator* field. Please notice that this
152 memory module has 64 bits of *data width* and 72 bits of *total width*. So,
153 it has 8 extra bits to be used by error detection and correction mechanisms.
154 Such kind of memory is called Error-correcting code memory (ECC memory).
155 
156 To make things even worse, it is not uncommon that systems with different
157 labels on their system's board to use exactly the same BIOS, meaning that
158 the labels provided by the BIOS won't match the real ones.
159 
160 ECC memory
161 ----------
162 
163 As mentioned in the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to be
164 used for error correction. In the above example, a memory module has
165 64 bits of *data width*, and 72 bits of *total width*.  The extra 8
166 bits which are used for the error detection and correction mechanisms
167 are referred to as the *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_.
168 
169 So, when the cpu requests the memory controller to write a word with
170 *data width*, the memory controller calculates the *syndrome* in real time,
171 using Hamming code, or some other error correction code, like SECDED+,
172 producing a code with *total width* size. Such code is then written
173 on the memory modules.
174 
175 At read, the *total width* bits code is converted back, using the same
176 ECC code used on write, producing a word with *data width* and a *syndrome*.
177 The word with *data width* is sent to the CPU, even when errors happen.
178 
179 The memory controller also looks at the *syndrome* in order to check if
180 there was an error, and if the ECC code was able to fix such error.
181 If the error was corrected, a Corrected Error (CE) happened. If not, an
182 Uncorrected Error (UE) happened.
183 
184 The information about the CE/UE errors is stored on some special registers
185 at the memory controller and can be accessed by reading such registers,
186 either by BIOS, by some special CPUs or by Linux EDAC driver. On x86 64
187 bit CPUs, such errors can also be retrieved via the Machine Check
188 Architecture (MCA)\ [#f3]_.
189 
190 .. [#f1] Please notice that several memory controllers allow operation on a
191   mode called "Lock-Step", where it groups two memory modules together,
192   doing 128-bit reads/writes. That gives 16 bits for error correction, with
193   significantly improves the error correction mechanism, at the expense
194   that, when an error happens, there's no way to know what memory module is
195   to blame. So, it has to blame both memory modules.
196 
197 .. [#f2] Some memory controllers also allow using memory in mirror mode.
198   On such mode, the same data is written to two memory modules. At read,
199   the system checks both memory modules, in order to check if both provide
200   identical data. On such configuration, when an error happens, there's no
201   way to know what memory module is to blame. So, it has to blame both
202   memory modules (or 4 memory modules, if the system is also on Lock-step
203   mode).
204 
205 .. [#f3] For more details about the Machine Check Architecture (MCA),
206   please read Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst at the Kernel tree.
207 
208 EDAC - Error Detection And Correction
209 *************************************
210 
211 .. note::
212 
213    "bluesmoke" was the name for this device driver subsystem when it
214    was "out-of-tree" and maintained at http://bluesmoke.sourceforge.net.
215    That site is mostly archaic now and can be used only for historical
216    purposes.
217 
218    When the subsystem was pushed upstream for the first time, on
219    Kernel 2.6.16, it was renamed to ``EDAC``.
220 
221 Purpose
222 -------
223 
224 The ``edac`` kernel module's goal is to detect and report hardware errors
225 that occur within the computer system running under linux.
226 
227 Memory
228 ------
229 
230 Memory Correctable Errors (CE) and Uncorrectable Errors (UE) are the
231 primary errors being harvested. These types of errors are harvested by
232 the ``edac_mc`` device.
233 
234 Detecting CE events, then harvesting those events and reporting them,
235 **can** but must not necessarily be a predictor of future UE events. With
236 CE events only, the system can and will continue to operate as no data
237 has been damaged yet.
238 
239 However, preventive maintenance and proactive part replacement of memory
240 modules exhibiting CEs can reduce the likelihood of the dreaded UE events
241 and system panics.
242 
243 Other hardware elements
244 -----------------------
245 
246 A new feature for EDAC, the ``edac_device`` class of device, was added in
247 the 2.6.23 version of the kernel.
248 
249 This new device type allows for non-memory type of ECC hardware detectors
250 to have their states harvested and presented to userspace via the sysfs
251 interface.
252 
253 Some architectures have ECC detectors for L1, L2 and L3 caches,
254 along with DMA engines, fabric switches, main data path switches,
255 interconnections, and various other hardware data paths. If the hardware
256 reports it, then a edac_device device probably can be constructed to
257 harvest and present that to userspace.
258 
259 
260 PCI bus scanning
261 ----------------
262 
263 In addition, PCI devices are scanned for PCI Bus Parity and SERR Errors
264 in order to determine if errors are occurring during data transfers.
265 
266 The presence of PCI Parity errors must be examined with a grain of salt.
267 There are several add-in adapters that do **not** follow the PCI specification
268 with regards to Parity generation and reporting. The specification says
269 the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend
270 to generate parity.  Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit
271 can "float" giving false positives.
272 
273 There is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is checked by
274 the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set, PCI parity/error
275 scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute is::
276 
277         broken_parity_status
278 
279 and is located in ``/sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z`` directories for
280 PCI devices.
281 
282 
283 Versioning
284 ----------
285 
286 EDAC is composed of a "core" module (``edac_core.ko``) and several Memory
287 Controller (MC) driver modules. On a given system, the CORE is loaded
288 and one MC driver will be loaded. Both the CORE and the MC driver (or
289 ``edac_device`` driver) have individual versions that reflect current
290 release level of their respective modules.
291 
292 Thus, to "report" on what version a system is running, one must report
293 both the CORE's and the MC driver's versions.
294 
295 
296 Loading
297 -------
298 
299 If ``edac`` was statically linked with the kernel then no loading
300 is necessary. If ``edac`` was built as modules then simply modprobe
301 the ``edac`` pieces that you need. You should be able to modprobe
302 hardware-specific modules and have the dependencies load the necessary
303 core modules.
304 
305 Example::
306 
307         $ modprobe amd76x_edac
308 
309 loads both the ``amd76x_edac.ko`` memory controller module and the
310 ``edac_mc.ko`` core module.
311 
312 
313 Sysfs interface
314 ---------------
315 
316 EDAC presents a ``sysfs`` interface for control and reporting purposes. It
317 lives in the /sys/devices/system/edac directory.
318 
319 Within this directory there currently reside 2 components:
320 
321         ======= ==============================
322         mc      memory controller(s) system
323         pci     PCI control and status system
324         ======= ==============================
325 
326 
327 
328 Memory Controller (mc) Model
329 ----------------------------
330 
331 Each ``mc`` device controls a set of memory modules [#f4]_. These modules
332 are laid out in a Chip-Select Row (``csrowX``) and Channel table (``chX``).
333 There can be multiple csrows and multiple channels.
334 
335 .. [#f4] Nowadays, the term DIMM (Dual In-line Memory Module) is widely
336   used to refer to a memory module, although there are other memory
337   packaging alternatives, like SO-DIMM, SIMM, etc. The UEFI
338   specification (Version 2.7) defines a memory module in the Common
339   Platform Error Record (CPER) section to be an SMBIOS Memory Device
340   (Type 17). Along this document, and inside the EDAC subsystem, the term
341   "dimm" is used for all memory modules, even when they use a
342   different kind of packaging.
343 
344 Memory controllers allow for several csrows, with 8 csrows being a
345 typical value. Yet, the actual number of csrows depends on the layout of
346 a given motherboard, memory controller and memory module characteristics.
347 
348 Dual channels allow for dual data length (e. g. 128 bits, on 64 bit systems)
349 data transfers to/from the CPU from/to memory. Some newer chipsets allow
350 for more than 2 channels, like Fully Buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs) memory
351 controllers. The following example will assume 2 channels:
352 
353         +------------+-----------------------+
354         | CS Rows    |       Channels        |
355         +------------+-----------+-----------+
356         |            |  ``ch0``  |  ``ch1``  |
357         +============+===========+===========+
358         |            |**DIMM_A0**|**DIMM_B0**|
359         +------------+-----------+-----------+
360         | ``csrow0`` |   rank0   |   rank0   |
361         +------------+-----------+-----------+
362         | ``csrow1`` |   rank1   |   rank1   |
363         +------------+-----------+-----------+
364         |            |**DIMM_A1**|**DIMM_B1**|
365         +------------+-----------+-----------+
366         | ``csrow2`` |    rank0  |  rank0    |
367         +------------+-----------+-----------+
368         | ``csrow3`` |    rank1  |  rank1    |
369         +------------+-----------+-----------+
370 
371 In the above example, there are 4 physical slots on the motherboard
372 for memory DIMMs:
373 
374         +---------+---------+
375         | DIMM_A0 | DIMM_B0 |
376         +---------+---------+
377         | DIMM_A1 | DIMM_B1 |
378         +---------+---------+
379 
380 Labels for these slots are usually silk-screened on the motherboard.
381 Slots labeled ``A`` are channel 0 in this example. Slots labeled ``B`` are
382 channel 1. Notice that there are two csrows possible on a physical DIMM.
383 These csrows are allocated their csrow assignment based on the slot into
384 which the memory DIMM is placed. Thus, when 1 DIMM is placed in each
385 Channel, the csrows cross both DIMMs.
386 
387 Memory DIMMs come single or dual "ranked". A rank is a populated csrow.
388 In the example above 2 dual ranked DIMMs are similarly placed. Thus,
389 both csrow0 and csrow1 are populated. On the other hand, when 2 single
390 ranked DIMMs are placed in slots DIMM_A0 and DIMM_B0, then they will
391 have just one csrow (csrow0) and csrow1 will be empty. The pattern
392 repeats itself for csrow2 and csrow3. Also note that some memory
393 controllers don't have any logic to identify the memory module, see
394 ``rankX`` directories below.
395 
396 The representation of the above is reflected in the directory
397 tree in EDAC's sysfs interface. Starting in directory
398 ``/sys/devices/system/edac/mc``, each memory controller will be
399 represented by its own ``mcX`` directory, where ``X`` is the
400 index of the MC::
401 
402         ..../edac/mc/
403                    |
404                    |->mc0
405                    |->mc1
406                    |->mc2
407                    ....
408 
409 Under each ``mcX`` directory each ``csrowX`` is again represented by a
410 ``csrowX``, where ``X`` is the csrow index::
411 
412         .../mc/mc0/
413                 |
414                 |->csrow0
415                 |->csrow2
416                 |->csrow3
417                 ....
418 
419 Notice that there is no csrow1, which indicates that csrow0 is composed
420 of a single ranked DIMMs. This should also apply in both Channels, in
421 order to have dual-channel mode be operational. Since both csrow2 and
422 csrow3 are populated, this indicates a dual ranked set of DIMMs for
423 channels 0 and 1.
424 
425 Within each of the ``mcX`` and ``csrowX`` directories are several EDAC
426 control and attribute files.
427 
428 ``mcX`` directories
429 -------------------
430 
431 In ``mcX`` directories are EDAC control and attribute files for
432 this ``X`` instance of the memory controllers.
433 
434 For a description of the sysfs API, please see:
435 
436         Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-edac
437 
438 
439 ``dimmX`` or ``rankX`` directories
440 ----------------------------------
441 
442 The recommended way to use the EDAC subsystem is to look at the information
443 provided by the ``dimmX`` or ``rankX`` directories [#f5]_.
444 
445 A typical EDAC system has the following structure under
446 ``/sys/devices/system/edac/``\ [#f6]_::
447 
448         /sys/devices/system/edac/
449         ├── mc
450         │   ├── mc0
451         │   │   ├── ce_count
452         │   │   ├── ce_noinfo_count
453         │   │   ├── dimm0
454         │   │   │   ├── dimm_ce_count
455         │   │   │   ├── dimm_dev_type
456         │   │   │   ├── dimm_edac_mode
457         │   │   │   ├── dimm_label
458         │   │   │   ├── dimm_location
459         │   │   │   ├── dimm_mem_type
460         │   │   │   ├── dimm_ue_count
461         │   │   │   ├── size
462         │   │   │   └── uevent
463         │   │   ├── max_location
464         │   │   ├── mc_name
465         │   │   ├── reset_counters
466         │   │   ├── seconds_since_reset
467         │   │   ├── size_mb
468         │   │   ├── ue_count
469         │   │   ├── ue_noinfo_count
470         │   │   └── uevent
471         │   ├── mc1
472         │   │   ├── ce_count
473         │   │   ├── ce_noinfo_count
474         │   │   ├── dimm0
475         │   │   │   ├── dimm_ce_count
476         │   │   │   ├── dimm_dev_type
477         │   │   │   ├── dimm_edac_mode
478         │   │   │   ├── dimm_label
479         │   │   │   ├── dimm_location
480         │   │   │   ├── dimm_mem_type
481         │   │   │   ├── dimm_ue_count
482         │   │   │   ├── size
483         │   │   │   └── uevent
484         │   │   ├── max_location
485         │   │   ├── mc_name
486         │   │   ├── reset_counters
487         │   │   ├── seconds_since_reset
488         │   │   ├── size_mb
489         │   │   ├── ue_count
490         │   │   ├── ue_noinfo_count
491         │   │   └── uevent
492         │   └── uevent
493         └── uevent
494 
495 In the ``dimmX`` directories are EDAC control and attribute files for
496 this ``X`` memory module:
497 
498 - ``size`` - Total memory managed by this csrow attribute file
499 
500         This attribute file displays, in count of megabytes, the memory
501         that this csrow contains.
502 
503 - ``dimm_ue_count`` - Uncorrectable Errors count attribute file
504 
505         This attribute file displays the total count of uncorrectable
506         errors that have occurred on this DIMM. If panic_on_ue is set
507         this counter will not have a chance to increment, since EDAC
508         will panic the system.
509 
510 - ``dimm_ce_count`` - Correctable Errors count attribute file
511 
512         This attribute file displays the total count of correctable
513         errors that have occurred on this DIMM. This count is very
514         important to examine. CEs provide early indications that a
515         DIMM is beginning to fail. This count field should be
516         monitored for non-zero values and report such information
517         to the system administrator.
518 
519 - ``dimm_dev_type``  - Device type attribute file
520 
521         This attribute file will display what type of DRAM device is
522         being utilized on this DIMM.
523         Examples:
524 
525                 - x1
526                 - x2
527                 - x4
528                 - x8
529 
530 - ``dimm_edac_mode`` - EDAC Mode of operation attribute file
531 
532         This attribute file will display what type of Error detection
533         and correction is being utilized.
534 
535 - ``dimm_label`` - memory module label control file
536 
537         This control file allows this DIMM to have a label assigned
538         to it. With this label in the module, when errors occur
539         the output can provide the DIMM label in the system log.
540         This becomes vital for panic events to isolate the
541         cause of the UE event.
542 
543         DIMM Labels must be assigned after booting, with information
544         that correctly identifies the physical slot with its
545         silk screen label. This information is currently very
546         motherboard specific and determination of this information
547         must occur in userland at this time.
548 
549 - ``dimm_location`` - location of the memory module
550 
551         The location can have up to 3 levels, and describe how the
552         memory controller identifies the location of a memory module.
553         Depending on the type of memory and memory controller, it
554         can be:
555 
556                 - *csrow* and *channel* - used when the memory controller
557                   doesn't identify a single DIMM - e. g. in ``rankX`` dir;
558                 - *branch*, *channel*, *slot* - typically used on FB-DIMM memory
559                   controllers;
560                 - *channel*, *slot* - used on Nehalem and newer Intel drivers.
561 
562 - ``dimm_mem_type`` - Memory Type attribute file
563 
564         This attribute file will display what type of memory is currently
565         on this csrow. Normally, either buffered or unbuffered memory.
566         Examples:
567 
568                 - Registered-DDR
569                 - Unbuffered-DDR
570 
571 .. [#f5] On some systems, the memory controller doesn't have any logic
572   to identify the memory module. On such systems, the directory is called ``rankX`` and works on a similar way as the ``csrowX`` directories.
573   On modern Intel memory controllers, the memory controller identifies the
574   memory modules directly. On such systems, the directory is called ``dimmX``.
575 
576 .. [#f6] There are also some ``power`` directories and ``subsystem``
577   symlinks inside the sysfs mapping that are automatically created by
578   the sysfs subsystem. Currently, they serve no purpose.
579 
580 ``csrowX`` directories
581 ----------------------
582 
583 When CONFIG_EDAC_LEGACY_SYSFS is enabled, sysfs will contain the ``csrowX``
584 directories. As this API doesn't work properly for Rambus, FB-DIMMs and
585 modern Intel Memory Controllers, this is being deprecated in favor of
586 ``dimmX`` directories.
587 
588 In the ``csrowX`` directories are EDAC control and attribute files for
589 this ``X`` instance of csrow:
590 
591 
592 - ``ue_count`` - Total Uncorrectable Errors count attribute file
593 
594         This attribute file displays the total count of uncorrectable
595         errors that have occurred on this csrow. If panic_on_ue is set
596         this counter will not have a chance to increment, since EDAC
597         will panic the system.
598 
599 
600 - ``ce_count`` - Total Correctable Errors count attribute file
601 
602         This attribute file displays the total count of correctable
603         errors that have occurred on this csrow. This count is very
604         important to examine. CEs provide early indications that a
605         DIMM is beginning to fail. This count field should be
606         monitored for non-zero values and report such information
607         to the system administrator.
608 
609 
610 - ``size_mb`` - Total memory managed by this csrow attribute file
611 
612         This attribute file displays, in count of megabytes, the memory
613         that this csrow contains.
614 
615 
616 - ``mem_type`` - Memory Type attribute file
617 
618         This attribute file will display what type of memory is currently
619         on this csrow. Normally, either buffered or unbuffered memory.
620         Examples:
621 
622                 - Registered-DDR
623                 - Unbuffered-DDR
624 
625 
626 - ``edac_mode`` - EDAC Mode of operation attribute file
627 
628         This attribute file will display what type of Error detection
629         and correction is being utilized.
630 
631 
632 - ``dev_type`` - Device type attribute file
633 
634         This attribute file will display what type of DRAM device is
635         being utilized on this DIMM.
636         Examples:
637 
638                 - x1
639                 - x2
640                 - x4
641                 - x8
642 
643 
644 - ``ch0_ce_count`` - Channel 0 CE Count attribute file
645 
646         This attribute file will display the count of CEs on this
647         DIMM located in channel 0.
648 
649 
650 - ``ch0_ue_count`` - Channel 0 UE Count attribute file
651 
652         This attribute file will display the count of UEs on this
653         DIMM located in channel 0.
654 
655 
656 - ``ch0_dimm_label`` - Channel 0 DIMM Label control file
657 
658 
659         This control file allows this DIMM to have a label assigned
660         to it. With this label in the module, when errors occur
661         the output can provide the DIMM label in the system log.
662         This becomes vital for panic events to isolate the
663         cause of the UE event.
664 
665         DIMM Labels must be assigned after booting, with information
666         that correctly identifies the physical slot with its
667         silk screen label. This information is currently very
668         motherboard specific and determination of this information
669         must occur in userland at this time.
670 
671 
672 - ``ch1_ce_count`` - Channel 1 CE Count attribute file
673 
674 
675         This attribute file will display the count of CEs on this
676         DIMM located in channel 1.
677 
678 
679 - ``ch1_ue_count`` - Channel 1 UE Count attribute file
680 
681 
682         This attribute file will display the count of UEs on this
683         DIMM located in channel 0.
684 
685 
686 - ``ch1_dimm_label`` - Channel 1 DIMM Label control file
687 
688         This control file allows this DIMM to have a label assigned
689         to it. With this label in the module, when errors occur
690         the output can provide the DIMM label in the system log.
691         This becomes vital for panic events to isolate the
692         cause of the UE event.
693 
694         DIMM Labels must be assigned after booting, with information
695         that correctly identifies the physical slot with its
696         silk screen label. This information is currently very
697         motherboard specific and determination of this information
698         must occur in userland at this time.
699 
700 
701 System Logging
702 --------------
703 
704 If logging for UEs and CEs is enabled, then system logs will contain
705 information indicating that errors have been detected::
706 
707   EDAC MC0: CE page 0x283, offset 0xce0, grain 8, syndrome 0x6ec3, row 0, channel 1 "DIMM_B1": amd76x_edac
708   EDAC MC0: CE page 0x1e5, offset 0xfb0, grain 8, syndrome 0xb741, row 0, channel 1 "DIMM_B1": amd76x_edac
709 
710 
711 The structure of the message is:
712 
713         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
714         | Content                               | Example     |
715         +=======================================+=============+
716         | The memory controller                 | MC0         |
717         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
718         | Error type                            | CE          |
719         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
720         | Memory page                           | 0x283       |
721         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
722         | Offset in the page                    | 0xce0       |
723         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
724         | The byte granularity                  | grain 8     |
725         | or resolution of the error            |             |
726         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
727         | The error syndrome                    | 0xb741      |
728         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
729         | Memory row                            | row 0       |
730         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
731         | Memory channel                        | channel 1   |
732         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
733         | DIMM label, if set prior              | DIMM B1     |
734         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
735         | And then an optional, driver-specific |             |
736         | message that may have additional      |             |
737         | information.                          |             |
738         +---------------------------------------+-------------+
739 
740 Both UEs and CEs with no info will lack all but memory controller, error
741 type, a notice of "no info" and then an optional, driver-specific error
742 message.
743 
744 
745 PCI Bus Parity Detection
746 ------------------------
747 
748 On Header Type 00 devices, the primary status is looked at for any
749 parity error regardless of whether parity is enabled on the device or
750 not. (The spec indicates parity is generated in some cases). On Header
751 Type 01 bridges, the secondary status register is also looked at to see
752 if parity occurred on the bus on the other side of the bridge.
753 
754 
755 Sysfs configuration
756 -------------------
757 
758 Under ``/sys/devices/system/edac/pci`` are control and attribute files as
759 follows:
760 
761 
762 - ``check_pci_parity`` - Enable/Disable PCI Parity checking control file
763 
764         This control file enables or disables the PCI Bus Parity scanning
765         operation. Writing a 1 to this file enables the scanning. Writing
766         a 0 to this file disables the scanning.
767 
768         Enable::
769 
770                 echo "1" >/sys/devices/system/edac/pci/check_pci_parity
771 
772         Disable::
773 
774                 echo "0" >/sys/devices/system/edac/pci/check_pci_parity
775 
776 
777 - ``pci_parity_count`` - Parity Count
778 
779         This attribute file will display the number of parity errors that
780         have been detected.
781 
782 
783 Module parameters
784 -----------------
785 
786 - ``edac_mc_panic_on_ue`` - Panic on UE control file
787 
788         An uncorrectable error will cause a machine panic.  This is usually
789         desirable.  It is a bad idea to continue when an uncorrectable error
790         occurs - it is indeterminate what was uncorrected and the operating
791         system context might be so mangled that continuing will lead to further
792         corruption. If the kernel has MCE configured, then EDAC will never
793         notice the UE.
794 
795         LOAD TIME::
796 
797                 module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_panic_on_ue=[0|1]
798 
799         RUN TIME::
800 
801                 echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_panic_on_ue
802 
803 
804 - ``edac_mc_log_ue`` - Log UE control file
805 
806 
807         Generate kernel messages describing uncorrectable errors.  These errors
808         are reported through the system message log system.  UE statistics
809         will be accumulated even when UE logging is disabled.
810 
811         LOAD TIME::
812 
813                 module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_log_ue=[0|1]
814 
815         RUN TIME::
816 
817                 echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_log_ue
818 
819 
820 - ``edac_mc_log_ce`` - Log CE control file
821 
822 
823         Generate kernel messages describing correctable errors.  These
824         errors are reported through the system message log system.
825         CE statistics will be accumulated even when CE logging is disabled.
826 
827         LOAD TIME::
828 
829                 module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_log_ce=[0|1]
830 
831         RUN TIME::
832 
833                 echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_log_ce
834 
835 
836 - ``edac_mc_poll_msec`` - Polling period control file
837 
838 
839         The time period, in milliseconds, for polling for error information.
840         Too small a value wastes resources.  Too large a value might delay
841         necessary handling of errors and might loose valuable information for
842         locating the error.  1000 milliseconds (once each second) is the current
843         default. Systems which require all the bandwidth they can get, may
844         increase this.
845 
846         LOAD TIME::
847 
848                 module/kernel parameter: edac_mc_poll_msec=[0|1]
849 
850         RUN TIME::
851 
852                 echo "1000" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_poll_msec
853 
854 
855 - ``panic_on_pci_parity`` - Panic on PCI PARITY Error
856 
857 
858         This control file enables or disables panicking when a parity
859         error has been detected.
860 
861 
862         module/kernel parameter::
863 
864                         edac_panic_on_pci_pe=[0|1]
865 
866         Enable::
867 
868                 echo "1" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_panic_on_pci_pe
869 
870         Disable::
871 
872                 echo "0" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_panic_on_pci_pe
873 
874 
875 
876 EDAC device type
877 ----------------
878 
879 In the header file, edac_pci.h, there is a series of edac_device structures
880 and APIs for the EDAC_DEVICE.
881 
882 User space access to an edac_device is through the sysfs interface.
883 
884 At the location ``/sys/devices/system/edac`` (sysfs) new edac_device devices
885 will appear.
886 
887 There is a three level tree beneath the above ``edac`` directory. For example,
888 the ``test_device_edac`` device (found at the http://bluesmoke.sourceforget.net
889 website) installs itself as::
890 
891         /sys/devices/system/edac/test-instance
892 
893 in this directory are various controls, a symlink and one or more ``instance``
894 directories.
895 
896 The standard default controls are:
897 
898         ==============  =======================================================
899         log_ce          boolean to log CE events
900         log_ue          boolean to log UE events
901         panic_on_ue     boolean to ``panic`` the system if an UE is encountered
902                         (default off, can be set true via startup script)
903         poll_msec       time period between POLL cycles for events
904         ==============  =======================================================
905 
906 The test_device_edac device adds at least one of its own custom control:
907 
908         ==============  ==================================================
909         test_bits       which in the current test driver does nothing but
910                         show how it is installed. A ported driver can
911                         add one or more such controls and/or attributes
912                         for specific uses.
913                         One out-of-tree driver uses controls here to allow
914                         for ERROR INJECTION operations to hardware
915                         injection registers
916         ==============  ==================================================
917 
918 The symlink points to the 'struct dev' that is registered for this edac_device.
919 
920 Instances
921 ---------
922 
923 One or more instance directories are present. For the ``test_device_edac``
924 case:
925 
926         +----------------+
927         | test-instance0 |
928         +----------------+
929 
930 
931 In this directory there are two default counter attributes, which are totals of
932 counter in deeper subdirectories.
933 
934         ==============  ====================================
935         ce_count        total of CE events of subdirectories
936         ue_count        total of UE events of subdirectories
937         ==============  ====================================
938 
939 Blocks
940 ------
941 
942 At the lowest directory level is the ``block`` directory. There can be 0, 1
943 or more blocks specified in each instance:
944 
945         +-------------+
946         | test-block0 |
947         +-------------+
948 
949 In this directory the default attributes are:
950 
951         ==============  ================================================
952         ce_count        which is counter of CE events for this ``block``
953                         of hardware being monitored
954         ue_count        which is counter of UE events for this ``block``
955                         of hardware being monitored
956         ==============  ================================================
957 
958 
959 The ``test_device_edac`` device adds 4 attributes and 1 control:
960 
961         ================== ====================================================
962         test-block-bits-0       for every POLL cycle this counter
963                                 is incremented
964         test-block-bits-1       every 10 cycles, this counter is bumped once,
965                                 and test-block-bits-0 is set to 0
966         test-block-bits-2       every 100 cycles, this counter is bumped once,
967                                 and test-block-bits-1 is set to 0
968         test-block-bits-3       every 1000 cycles, this counter is bumped once,
969                                 and test-block-bits-2 is set to 0
970         ================== ====================================================
971 
972 
973         ================== ====================================================
974         reset-counters          writing ANY thing to this control will
975                                 reset all the above counters.
976         ================== ====================================================
977 
978 
979 Use of the ``test_device_edac`` driver should enable any others to create their own
980 unique drivers for their hardware systems.
981 
982 The ``test_device_edac`` sample driver is located at the
983 http://bluesmoke.sourceforge.net project site for EDAC.
984 
985 
986 Usage of EDAC APIs on Nehalem and newer Intel CPUs
987 --------------------------------------------------
988 
989 On older Intel architectures, the memory controller was part of the North
990 Bridge chipset. Nehalem, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Sky Lake and
991 newer Intel architectures integrated an enhanced version of the memory
992 controller (MC) inside the CPUs.
993 
994 This chapter will cover the differences of the enhanced memory controllers
995 found on newer Intel CPUs, such as ``i7core_edac``, ``sb_edac`` and
996 ``sbx_edac`` drivers.
997 
998 .. note::
999 
1000    The Xeon E7 processor families use a separate chip for the memory
1001    controller, called Intel Scalable Memory Buffer. This section doesn't
1002    apply for such families.
1003 
1004 1) There is one Memory Controller per Quick Patch Interconnect
1005    (QPI). At the driver, the term "socket" means one QPI. This is
1006    associated with a physical CPU socket.
1007 
1008    Each MC have 3 physical read channels, 3 physical write channels and
1009    3 logic channels. The driver currently sees it as just 3 channels.
1010    Each channel can have up to 3 DIMMs.
1011 
1012    The minimum known unity is DIMMs. There are no information about csrows.
1013    As EDAC API maps the minimum unity is csrows, the driver sequentially
1014    maps channel/DIMM into different csrows.
1015 
1016    For example, supposing the following layout::
1017 
1018         Ch0 phy rd0, wr0 (0x063f4031): 2 ranks, UDIMMs
1019           dimm 0 1024 Mb offset: 0, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400
1020           dimm 1 1024 Mb offset: 4, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400
1021         Ch1 phy rd1, wr1 (0x063f4031): 2 ranks, UDIMMs
1022           dimm 0 1024 Mb offset: 0, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400
1023         Ch2 phy rd3, wr3 (0x063f4031): 2 ranks, UDIMMs
1024           dimm 0 1024 Mb offset: 0, bank: 8, rank: 1, row: 0x4000, col: 0x400
1025 
1026    The driver will map it as::
1027 
1028         csrow0: channel 0, dimm0
1029         csrow1: channel 0, dimm1
1030         csrow2: channel 1, dimm0
1031         csrow3: channel 2, dimm0
1032 
1033    exports one DIMM per csrow.
1034 
1035    Each QPI is exported as a different memory controller.
1036 
1037 2) The MC has the ability to inject errors to test drivers. The drivers
1038    implement this functionality via some error injection nodes:
1039 
1040    For injecting a memory error, there are some sysfs nodes, under
1041    ``/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc?/``:
1042 
1043    - ``inject_addrmatch/*``:
1044       Controls the error injection mask register. It is possible to specify
1045       several characteristics of the address to match an error code::
1046 
1047          dimm = the affected dimm. Numbers are relative to a channel;
1048          rank = the memory rank;
1049          channel = the channel that will generate an error;
1050          bank = the affected bank;
1051          page = the page address;
1052          column (or col) = the address column.
1053 
1054       each of the above values can be set to "any" to match any valid value.
1055 
1056       At driver init, all values are set to any.
1057 
1058       For example, to generate an error at rank 1 of dimm 2, for any channel,
1059       any bank, any page, any column::
1060 
1061                 echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm
1062                 echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank
1063 
1064         To return to the default behaviour of matching any, you can do::
1065 
1066                 echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/dimm
1067                 echo any >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/rank
1068 
1069    - ``inject_eccmask``:
1070           specifies what bits will have troubles,
1071 
1072    - ``inject_section``:
1073        specifies what ECC cache section will get the error::
1074 
1075                 3 for both
1076                 2 for the highest
1077                 1 for the lowest
1078 
1079    - ``inject_type``:
1080        specifies the type of error, being a combination of the following bits::
1081 
1082                 bit 0 - repeat
1083                 bit 1 - ecc
1084                 bit 2 - parity
1085 
1086    - ``inject_enable``:
1087        starts the error generation when something different than 0 is written.
1088 
1089    All inject vars can be read. root permission is needed for write.
1090 
1091    Datasheet states that the error will only be generated after a write on an
1092    address that matches inject_addrmatch. It seems, however, that reading will
1093    also produce an error.
1094 
1095    For example, the following code will generate an error for any write access
1096    at socket 0, on any DIMM/address on channel 2::
1097 
1098         echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_addrmatch/channel
1099         echo 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_type
1100         echo 64 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_eccmask
1101         echo 3 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_section
1102         echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_enable
1103         dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null seek=16k bs=4k count=1 >& /dev/null
1104 
1105    For socket 1, it is needed to replace "mc0" by "mc1" at the above
1106    commands.
1107 
1108    The generated error message will look like::
1109 
1110         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))
1111 
1112 3) Corrected Error memory register counters
1113 
1114    Those newer MCs have some registers to count memory errors. The driver
1115    uses those registers to report Corrected Errors on devices with Registered
1116    DIMMs.
1117 
1118    However, those counters don't work with Unregistered DIMM. As the chipset
1119    offers some counters that also work with UDIMMs (but with a worse level of
1120    granularity than the default ones), the driver exposes those registers for
1121    UDIMM memories.
1122 
1123    They can be read by looking at the contents of ``all_channel_counts/``::
1124 
1125      $ for i in /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/*; do echo $i; cat $i; done
1126         /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm0
1127         0
1128         /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm1
1129         0
1130         /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/all_channel_counts/udimm2
1131         0
1132 
1133    What happens here is that errors on different csrows, but at the same
1134    dimm number will increment the same counter.
1135    So, in this memory mapping::
1136 
1137         csrow0: channel 0, dimm0
1138         csrow1: channel 0, dimm1
1139         csrow2: channel 1, dimm0
1140         csrow3: channel 2, dimm0
1141 
1142    The hardware will increment udimm0 for an error at the first dimm at either
1143    csrow0, csrow2  or csrow3;
1144 
1145    The hardware will increment udimm1 for an error at the second dimm at either
1146    csrow0, csrow2  or csrow3;
1147 
1148    The hardware will increment udimm2 for an error at the third dimm at either
1149    csrow0, csrow2  or csrow3;
1150 
1151 4) Standard error counters
1152 
1153    The standard error counters are generated when an mcelog error is received
1154    by the driver. Since, with UDIMM, this is counted by software, it is
1155    possible that some errors could be lost. With RDIMM's, they display the
1156    contents of the registers
1157 
1158 Reference documents used on ``amd64_edac``
1159 ------------------------------------------
1160 
1161 ``amd64_edac`` module is based on the following documents
1162 (available from http://support.amd.com/en-us/search/tech-docs):
1163 
1164 1. :Title:  BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for AMD Athlon 64 and AMD
1165            Opteron Processors
1166    :AMD publication #: 26094
1167    :Revision: 3.26
1168    :Link: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/26094.PDF
1169 
1170 2. :Title:  BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide for AMD NPT Family 0Fh
1171            Processors
1172    :AMD publication #: 32559
1173    :Revision: 3.00
1174    :Issue Date: May 2006
1175    :Link: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/32559.pdf
1176 
1177 3. :Title:  BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) For AMD Family 10h
1178            Processors
1179    :AMD publication #: 31116
1180    :Revision: 3.00
1181    :Issue Date: September 07, 2007
1182    :Link: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/31116.pdf
1183 
1184 4. :Title: BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 15h
1185           Models 30h-3Fh Processors
1186    :AMD publication #: 49125
1187    :Revision: 3.06
1188    :Issue Date: 2/12/2015 (latest release)
1189    :Link: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/49125_15h_Models_30h-3Fh_BKDG.pdf
1190 
1191 5. :Title: BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 15h
1192           Models 60h-6Fh Processors
1193    :AMD publication #: 50742
1194    :Revision: 3.01
1195    :Issue Date: 7/23/2015 (latest release)
1196    :Link: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/50742_15h_Models_60h-6Fh_BKDG.pdf
1197 
1198 6. :Title: BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 16h
1199           Models 00h-0Fh Processors
1200    :AMD publication #: 48751
1201    :Revision: 3.03
1202    :Issue Date: 2/23/2015 (latest release)
1203    :Link: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/48751_16h_bkdg.pdf
1204 
1205 Credits
1206 =======
1207 
1208 * Written by Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
1209 
1210   - 7 Dec 2005
1211   - 17 Jul 2007 Updated
1212 
1213 * |copy| Mauro Carvalho Chehab
1214 
1215   - 05 Aug 2009 Nehalem interface
1216   - 26 Oct 2016 Converted to ReST and cleanups at the Nehalem section
1217 
1218 * EDAC authors/maintainers:
1219 
1220   - Doug Thompson, Dave Jiang, Dave Peterson et al,
1221   - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
1222   - Borislav Petkov
1223   - original author: Thayne Harbaugh

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