From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753398Ab2IFMgt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:36:49 -0400 Received: from e23smtp06.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.148]:51211 "EHLO e23smtp06.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752803Ab2IFMgs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: <50489853.3050906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:04:27 +0530 From: "Naveen N. Rao" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Tony Luck , Andi Kleen , bp@amd64.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, ananth@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mcelog] Start using the new sysfs tunables location References: <20120905102156.9423.27806.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20120905103237.9726.56131.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20120905184708.GC16230@one.firstfloor.org> <20120906122850.GI17289@tassilo.jf.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20120906122850.GI17289@tassilo.jf.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 12090612-7014-0000-0000-000001DA275A Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/06/2012 05:58 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> The change is still under discussion. Stage one is to add the new global >> pathnames in addition to keeping the old per-cpu ones. Also fix all utilities >> (just mcelog(8) as far as we know) to prefer the new paths. > > But why do you even want to change it? Does it fix anything? > AFAIK the old setup -- while not being pretty -- works just fine. The reason for this was explained in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg298302.html Even if we decide not to remove these tunables from under their current per-cpu location, I still think it is much cleaner to have them available under /sys/devices/system/machinecheck. - Naveen