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2026-08-03Documentation: fix "readng" typo in EDAC memory-repair ABI doc岳秉坤
Fix "readng" -> "reading" in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-edac-memory-repair. Signed-off-by: 岳秉坤 <yuebingkun@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Message-ID: <20260728041213.52820-3-yuebingkun@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-02-26EDAC: Update memory repair control interface for memory sparing featureShiju Jose
Update memory repair control interface for memory sparing feature. CXL memory devices can support soft and hard memory sparing at cacheline, row, bank and rank granularities. Memory sparing is defined as a repair function that replaces a portion of memory with a portion of functional memory at that same granularity. When a CXL device detects an error in memory, it will report to the host that there's need for a repair maintenance operation by using an event record where the "maintenance needed" flag is set. The event records contain the device physical address (DPA) and other attributes of the memory to repair such as bank group, bank, rank, row, column, channel etc. The kernel will report the corresponding CXL general media or DRAM trace event to userspace, and userspace tools (e.g. rasdaemon) will initiate a repair operation in response to the device request via the sysfs repair control. [ bp: Massage. ] Signed-off-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212143654.1893-15-shiju.jose@huawei.com
2025-02-26EDAC: Add a memory repair control featureShiju Jose
Add a generic EDAC memory repair control driver to manage memory repairs in the system, such as CXL Post Package Repair (PPR) and other soft and hard PPR features. For example, a CXL device with DRAM components that support PPR features may implement PPR maintenance operations. DRAM components may support two types of PPR: - hard PPR, for a permanent row repair, and - soft PPR, for a temporary row repair. Soft PPR is much faster than hard PPR, but the repair is lost with a power cycle. When a CXL device detects an error in a memory, it may report the need for a repair maintenance operation by using an event record where the "maintenance needed" flag is set. The event records contain the device physical address (DPA) and other optional attributes of the memory to repair. The kernel will report the corresponding CXL general media or DRAM trace event to userspace, and userspace tools (e.g. rasdaemon) will initiate a repair operation in response to the device request via the sysfs repair control. Device with memory repair features registers with EDAC device driver, which retrieves a memory repair descriptor from EDAC memory repair driver and exposes the sysfs repair control attributes to userspace in /sys/bus/edac/devices/<dev-name>/mem_repairX/. The common memory repair control interface abstracts the control of arbitrary memory repair functionality into a standardized set of functions. The sysfs memory repair attribute nodes are only available if the client driver has implemented the corresponding attribute callback function and provided operations to the EDAC device driver during registration. [ bp: Massage, fixup edac_dev_register() retvals, merge write_overflow fix to mem_repair_create_desc() ] Signed-off-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212143654.1893-5-shiju.jose@huawei.com