From cf0573939d3f4ce822ceb742a8179f38697b1953 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:20:49 +0100 Subject: Documentation: Begin a RAS section Add some initial RAS documentation. The expectation is for this to collect, among others, all the user-visible features for interaction with the RAS features of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128142049.GTZWX3QQTSaQk/+u53@fat_crate.local --- Documentation/RAS/ras.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RAS/ras.rst (limited to 'Documentation/RAS') diff --git a/Documentation/RAS/ras.rst b/Documentation/RAS/ras.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2556b397cd27 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RAS/ras.rst @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Reliability, Availability and Serviceability features +===================================================== + +This documents different aspects of the RAS functionality present in the +kernel. + +Error decoding +--------------- + +* x86 + +Error decoding on AMD systems should be done using the rasdaemon tool: +https://github.com/mchehab/rasdaemon/ + +While the daemon is running, it would automatically log and decode +errors. If not, one can still decode such errors by supplying the +hardware information from the error:: + + $ rasdaemon -p --status --ipid --smca + +Also, the user can pass particular family and model to decode the error +string:: + + $ rasdaemon -p --status --ipid --smca --family --model --bank -- cgit v1.2.3