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Documentation/edac.txt: Reflect the sysfs changes at the document

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 15 years ago
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Documentation/edac.txt

@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ exports one
    For injecting a memory error, there are some sysfs nodes, under
    For injecting a memory error, there are some sysfs nodes, under
    /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc?/:
    /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc?/:
 
 
-   inject_addrmatch:
+   inject_addrmatch/*:
       Controls the error injection mask register. It is possible to specify
       Controls the error injection mask register. It is possible to specify
       several characteristics of the address to match an error code:
       several characteristics of the address to match an error code:
          dimm = the affected dimm. Numbers are relative to a channel;
          dimm = the affected dimm. Numbers are relative to a channel;
@@ -781,10 +781,12 @@ exports one
 
 
       For example, to generate an error at rank 1 of dimm 2, for any channel,
       For example, to generate an error at rank 1 of dimm 2, for any channel,
       any bank, any page, any column:
       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:
 	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:
    inject_eccmask:
        specifies what bits will have troubles,
        specifies what bits will have troubles,
@@ -813,7 +815,7 @@ exports one
    For example, the following code will generate an error for any write access
    For example, the following code will generate an error for any write access
    at socket 0, on any DIMM/address on channel 2:
    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 2 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_type
    echo 64 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_eccmask
    echo 64 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_eccmask
    echo 3 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_section
    echo 3 >/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/inject_section
@@ -829,18 +831,23 @@ exports one
 
 
 3) Nehalem specific Corrected Error memory counters
 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
    What happens here is that errors on different csrows, but at the same
    dimm number will increment the same counter.
    dimm number will increment the same counter.
@@ -849,21 +856,16 @@ exports one
 	csrow1: channel 0, dimm1
 	csrow1: channel 0, dimm1
 	csrow2: channel 1, dimm0
 	csrow2: channel 1, dimm0
 	csrow3: channel 2, 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
 4) Standard error counters
 
 
    The standard error counters are generated when an mcelog error is received
    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