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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 9/9] docs: ABI: testing: Document the Ampere Altra Family's SMpro sysfs interfaces
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 03:13:55PM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> Add documentation for the Ampere(R)'s Altra(R) SMpro sysfs interfaces
>
> Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> Changes in v7:
> + First introduce in v7 [Greg]
>
> .../sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro | 133 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 133 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9bfd8d6d0f71
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-ampere-smpro
> @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_[core|mem|pcie|other]_[ce|ue]

Please split this out as one entry per file.

> +KernelVersion: 5.14

5.14 is a long time ago.

> +Contact: quan@os.amperecomputing.com
> +Description:
> + (RO) Contains the 48-byte Ampere (Vendor-Specific) Error Record, see [1]
> + printed in hex format as below:
> +
> + AA BB CCCC DDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD \
> + DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
> + Where:
> + AA : Error Type
> + BB : Subtype
> + CCCC : Instance
> + DDD...DDD: Similar to the Arm RAS standard error record

No, this is not a valid sysfs file, sorry. This should just be one
value per file.


> +
> + See [1] below for the format details.
> +
> + The detail of each sysfs entries is as below:
> + +-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
> + | Error | Sysfs entry |
> + +-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
> + | Core's CE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_core_ce |
> + | Core's UE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_core_ue |
> + | Memory's CE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_mem_ce |
> + | Memory's UE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_mem_ue |
> + | PCIe's CE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_pcie_ce |
> + | PCIe's UE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_pcie_ue |
> + | Other's CE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_other_ce|
> + | Other's UE | /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_other_ue|
> + +-------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
> + UE: Uncorrect-able Error
> + CE: Correct-able Error
> +
> + [1] Section 3.3 Ampere (Vendor-Specific) Error Record Formats,
> + Altra Family RAS Supplement.
> +
> +
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/smpro-errmon.*/errors_[smpro|pmpro]
> +KernelVersion: 5.14
> +Contact: quan@os.amperecomputing.com
> +Description:
> + (RO) Contains the internal firmware error record printed as hex format
> + as below:
> +
> + A BB C DD EEEE FFFFFFFF

Again this isn't a good sysfs entry. You should never have to parse a
sysfs file except for a single value.

thanks,

greg k-h

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