Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Begin a RAS section

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Jan 09 2024 - 12:47:45 EST


Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 11:42:22AM +0000, Muralidhara M K wrote:
>> From: Muralidhara M K <muralidhara.mk@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> AMD systems with Scalable MCA, each machine check error of a SMCA bank
>> type has an associated bit position in the bank's control (CTL) register.
>
> Ontop of this. It is long overdue:
>
> ---
> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:37:56 +0100
>
> Add some initial RAS documentation. The expectation is for this to
> collect all the user-visible features for interacting with the RAS
> features of the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/RAS/ras.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Documentation/index.rst | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/RAS/ras.rst

I wish I'd been copied on this ... I've been working to get a handle on
the top-level Documentation/ directories for a while, and would rather
not see a new one added for this. Offhand, based on this first
document, it looks like material that belongs under
Documentation/admin-guide; can we move it there, please?

Thanks,

jon