Messages in this thread | | | From | Alex Deucher <> | Date | Thu, 13 May 2021 11:02:02 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Register bad page handler for Aldebaran |
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On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:57 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:32:45AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > Right. The sys admin can query the bad page count and decide when to > > retire the card. > > Yap, although the driver should actively "tell" the sysadmin when some > critical counts of retired VRAM pages are reached because I doubt all > admins would go look at those counts on their own.
I think we print something in the log as well when we hit the threshold. I need to double check the code.
> > Btw, you say "admin" - am I to understand that those are some high end > GPU cards with ECC memory? If consumer grade stuff has this too, then > the driver should very much warn on such levels on its own because > normal users won't know what and where to look. >
Currently it's only available on workstation and datacenter boards.
> Other than that, the big picture sounds good to me.
Thanks!
Alex
> > Thx. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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