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Tomas Mudrunka
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Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg. When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM status. In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them. This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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