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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Joseph, Jithu" <jithu.joseph@intel.com>,
	"hdegoede@redhat.com" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
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	"Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:59:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4af81bd788e43dda915a1052af0be55@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjBBmEjbIaqTbVt+@kroah.com>

>> This seems a novel use of uevent ... is it OK, or is is abuse?
>
> Don't create "novel" uses of uevents.  They are there to express a
> change in state of a device so that userspace can then go and do
> something with that information.  If that pattern fits here, wonderful.

Maybe Dan will chime in here to better explain his idea. I think for
the case where the core test fails, there is a good match with uevent.
The device (one CPU core) has changed state from "working" to
"untrustworthy". Userspace can do things like: take the logical CPUs
on that core offline, initiate a service call, or in a VMM cluster environment
migrate work to a different node.

> I doubt you can report "test results" via a uevent in a way that the
> current uevent states and messages would properly convey, but hey, maybe
> I'm wrong.

But here things get a bit sketchy. Reporting "pass", or "didn't complete the test"
isn't a state change.  But it seems like a poor interface if there is no feedback
that the test was run. Using different methods to report pass/fail/incomplete
also seems user hostile.

> good luck!
Thanks ... we may need it :-)

-Tony


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-15 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-01 19:54 [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 01/10] x86/microcode/intel: expose collect_cpu_info_early() for IFS Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:08   ` Greg KH
2022-03-02  0:56     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-02 10:30   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-03-03  1:34     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 02/10] Documentation: In-Field Scan Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:07   ` Greg KH
2022-03-02  0:58     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 03/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add driver for " Jithu Joseph
2022-03-02 23:24   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-02 23:31     ` Raj, Ashok
2022-03-03  0:02     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-03  2:04     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 04/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Load IFS Image Jithu Joseph
2022-03-03  2:58   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 05/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Check IFS Image sanity Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 06/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Authenticate and copy to secured memory Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 07/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Create kthreads for online cpus for scan test Jithu Joseph
2022-03-03  4:17   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-03 19:59     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-04 19:20     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 16:52       ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 17:46         ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-10 21:42           ` Kok, Auke
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 08/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add IFS sysfs interface Jithu Joseph
2022-03-04  0:31   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-04 16:51     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-04 20:42     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-04 21:01       ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-21 21:15         ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-07 17:38       ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 19:09         ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 19:15           ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 19:55             ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 20:25               ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 20:56                 ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-07 21:28                   ` Dan Williams
2022-03-07 21:30                   ` gregkh
2022-03-07 21:33                     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 09/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: add ABI documentation for IFS Jithu Joseph
2022-03-04  0:57   ` Williams, Dan J
2022-03-01 19:54 ` [RFC 10/10] trace: platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add trace point to track Intel IFS operations Jithu Joseph
2022-03-01 20:17   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-02  1:02     ` Joseph, Jithu
2022-03-01 20:10 ` [RFC 00/10] Introduce In Field Scan driver Greg KH
2022-03-01 20:14   ` Greg KH
2022-03-14 23:10     ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-15  7:34       ` Greg KH
2022-03-15 14:59         ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2022-03-15 15:26           ` Greg KH
2022-03-15 16:04             ` Dan Williams
2022-03-15 16:09               ` Dan Williams
2022-03-15 16:10             ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-16  8:09               ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 15:33   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-02 16:20     ` Greg KH
2022-03-02 13:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-02 20:29   ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-02 21:18     ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-03-02 21:41       ` Luck, Tony
2022-03-02 23:11 ` Williams, Dan J

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