TWI767378B - Error type determination system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An error type determination system and method are provided in the present invention. The error type determination system includes a server operating unit, a basic input/output system, a logic processing module, and a management control module. The server operating unit is provided to send an error occurred signal which includes a first error information when executes a executing program and generates an error. When the basic input/output system receives the error occurred signal, the basic input/output system figures out a corresponding error type information according to an error type comparison table and the first error information, and then sends an error type signal which includes the corresponding error type information. When the logic processing module receives the error type signal, the logic processing module figures out and stores the corresponding error type information, and then transmits the corresponding error type information to the management control module.

Description

Error type judgment system and method

The present invention relates to an error type judging system and method, in particular to an error type judging system and method for judging the error type when an execution error occurs.

With the advancement of network technology, servers play an indispensable role in people's lives. Generally speaking, during the operation of the server system, whether it is from the shutdown state to the power-on state, or from the sleep state to recover In the working state or in the normal operation state, there will be a certain probability of uncorrectable errors (Uncorrectable Error, UCE ERROR), which will lead to the problem of machine crash.

Among them, in the prior art, since the production line personnel cannot accurately determine the type of the uncorrectable error, they cannot effectively understand what causes the uncorrectable error. Therefore, the Basic Input/Output System (Basic Input/Output System) is often required. , BIOS), the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), and other hardware departments to debug the production line, thus causing a waste of time and affecting all personnel To the efficiency of production, therefore, the existing technology still has room for improvement.

Considering that in the prior art, if an error occurs in the operation of the existing server, the on-site personnel cannot determine the type of error, resulting in the inconvenience of a large number of personnel and the reduction of production efficiency, the present invention provides a method for judging An error type judging system and method thereof are implemented to solve the problems described in the prior art.

In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the necessary technical means adopted by the present invention is to provide an error type judgment system, which includes a servo operation unit, a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), and a logic processing module and a management control module. The servo operation unit is used for sending an error occurrence signal including the first error information when an execution program is executed and a first error information occurs. The basic input output system includes a first storage unit and a first processing unit, and the first storage unit stores a correspondence including a plurality of second error messages and a plurality of error type messages corresponding to the second error messages respectively Error type comparison table for relationship.

The first processing unit is electrically connected to the first storage unit, and is communicatively connected to the servo operation unit for finding the second errors corresponding to the first error information according to the error type comparison table when an error occurrence signal is received One of the information, and then according to the error type comparison table and one of the second error information corresponding to the above to find out the corresponding one of the error type information, and the corresponding one of the above error type information. One of the error type information is defined as a corresponding error type information, so that an error type signal including the corresponding error type information is transmitted through an information transmission protocol.

The logic processing module includes a second storage unit and a second processing unit, the second processing unit is electrically connected to the second storage unit, and is communicatively connected to the first processing unit, for receiving an error type signal, The corresponding error type information is parsed out, the corresponding error type information is stored in the second storage unit, and the corresponding error type information is transmitted. The management control module is communicatively connected to the second processing unit for receiving corresponding error type information.

On the basis of the above-mentioned necessary technical means, an auxiliary technical means derived from the present invention is that the management control module is further used to transmit an error type check command to the second processing unit, thereby triggering the second processing unit to detect the corresponding error type The information is sent to the management control module. In addition, the logic processing module is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), the management control module is a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), and the information transmission protocol is a serial general-purpose input Output (Serial General Purpose Input/Output, SGPIO) protocol.

In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the necessary technical means adopted by the present invention is to provide an error type judgment method, which is implemented by using the above error type judgment system. In the error type judging method, the first processing unit of the basic input output system is used to judge whether an error occurrence signal including the first error information is sent when the servo operation unit executes the execution program and generates the first error information. When the judgment result of the above step is yes, use the first processing unit of the basic input output system to find out one of the second error information corresponding to the first error information according to the error type comparison table, and then according to the error type Find out one of the corresponding error type information by comparing the table with one of the above-mentioned corresponding second error information, and define one of the above-mentioned corresponding error type information as Corresponding error type information, so as to transmit the error type signal including the corresponding error type information through the information transmission protocol.

Then, the second processing unit of the logic processing module receives the error type signal, parses out the corresponding error type information, stores the corresponding error type information in the second storage unit, and transmits the corresponding error type information. Finally, the management control module is used to receive the corresponding error type information, so as to display the corresponding error type information. Wherein, when the judgment result of the above-mentioned first step is no, the above-mentioned first step is repeatedly executed.

On the basis of the above necessary technical means, an auxiliary technical means derived from the present invention is that the logic processing module is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), and the management control module is a baseboard management controller ( Baseboard Management Controller, BMC), the information transmission protocol is a serial general purpose input/output (Serial General Purpose Input/Output, SGPIO) protocol.

Based on the above, after using the error type judgment system and method provided by the present invention, since the error type comparison table is established in the basic input output system in advance, when an error occurs during the operation of the server, the basic input output The system can immediately identify the type of error, and can directly transmit it to the logic processing module to trigger the logic processing module to store and transmit it to the management control module, so that the on-site personnel can know when an error occurs through the management control module. Therefore, the source of the error can be quickly found, which can effectively reduce the inconvenience of other personnel, and can effectively improve the processing efficiency when errors occur.

The specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the schematic diagrams. The advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description and the scope of the claims. It should be noted that the drawings are all in a very simplified form and use inaccurate scales, and are only used to facilitate and clearly assist the purpose of explaining the embodiments of the present invention.

Please refer to the first figure. The first figure is a block diagram of an error type determination system provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the error type determination system 1 provided by the present invention includes a servo operation unit 11 , a basic input/output system (BIOS) 12 , a logic processing module 13 and a management control Module 14. Among them, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the error type determination system 1 is applied to a server (not shown in the figure), and the servo operation unit 11 may be, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), The microcontroller (Microcontroller Unit, MCU) or other processors with processing functions can also be the processing modules in the basic input output system 12 described below, depending on the practical design.

The basic input output system 12 includes a first storage unit 121 and a first processing unit 122. The first storage unit 121 can be, for example, an existing memory with a function of storing data, and the first storage unit 121 stores a memory including a plurality of The error type comparison table 1211 of the corresponding relationship between the second error information and the plurality of error type information corresponding to the second error information respectively.

For example, the first storage unit 121 of the preferred embodiment of the present invention stores the second error information in the form of bits, so the second error information is, for example, 0x10000000, 0x20000000 and 0x40000000. In addition, the above-mentioned error type information is, for example, a multi-bit correction error memory error (Multi Bit ECC Memory Error), a normal data parity error (Parity Error, PERR), and a system error (System Error, SERR), but other embodiments is not limited to this. In addition, the corresponding relationship stored in the error type comparison table 1211 of the preferred embodiment of the present invention can be, for example, the following table. Error type information Second error message multi-bit bugfix memory bug 0x10000000 Normal data parity error 0x20000000 system error 0x40000000

The first processing unit 122 can be, for example, an existing processor with processing functions, electrically connected to the first storage unit 121, and communicatively connected to the servo operation unit 11. In addition, the first processing unit 122 can also be integrated with the servo operation unit 11 as a The above-mentioned processing module is arranged in the basic input output system 12, which depends on the practical design. Wherein, the communication connections described in the preferred embodiments of the present invention are all wired communication connections, and in other embodiments, they may be wireless communication connections, which depend on practical designs.

The logic processing module 13 can be, for example, a complex programmable logic device (Complex Programmable Logic Device, CPLD). The logic processing module 13 includes a second storage unit 131 and a second processing unit 132 , and the second storage unit 131 can be, for example, an existing memory with the function of storing data. The second processing unit 132 can be, for example, an existing processor with processing functions, and is electrically connected to the second storage unit 131 and communicatively connected to the first processing unit 122 .

The management control module 14 is, for example, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), and is communicatively connected to the second processing unit 132 .

The servo operation unit 11 is used for sending an error occurrence signal S1 including the first error information when an execution program is executed and a first error information is generated. Wherein, the above-mentioned execution program is, for example, a boot program, an operating system program or other operating programs, and in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first error message is, for example, 0x40000000.

When receiving the error occurrence signal S1, the first processing unit 122 finds out one of the second error messages corresponding to the first error message according to the error type comparison table 1211 (a preferred embodiment of the present invention is to find out corresponding 0x40000000), and then according to the error type comparison table 1211 and one of the above-mentioned corresponding second error information to find out one of the corresponding error type information (a preferred embodiment of the present invention That is to find out that 0x40000000 corresponds to the system error in the error type information), and define one of the above-mentioned corresponding error type information as a corresponding error type information 1311 (that is, define the system error as the corresponding error type information 1311), so as to transmit an error type signal S2 including the corresponding error type information 1311 through an information transmission protocol.

Wherein, the above-mentioned information transmission protocol is, for example, a serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) protocol, that is, the first storage unit is stored in bits in order to respond to the serial general purpose input/output protocol. The transmission method, and more specifically, the preferred embodiment of the present invention is that the basic input and output system 12 is connected to the logic processing module 13 through the serial general-purpose input and output pins, and the preferred embodiment of the present invention uses the basic input The serial general-purpose input and output pins of the output system 12 transmit the error type signal S2 to the second processing unit 132 of the logic processing module 13 .

When the second processing unit 132 receives the error type signal S2, it parses out the corresponding error type information 1311, so as to know that the error type information that has occurred this time is a system error, and stores the corresponding error type information 1311 in the second storage unit 131. In addition, the second processing unit 132 transmits the corresponding error type information 1311 to the management control module 14 in a manner of transmitting an error notification signal S3 including the corresponding error type information 1311 to the management control module 14 .

After the management control module 14 receives the error notification signal S3, it can analyze the corresponding error type information 1311, and then can display the corresponding error type information 1311 through the display device. Group 14 learns what type of error occurred this time.

In addition, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the management control module 14 first transmits an error type check command S4 to the second processing unit 132, and then the second processing unit 132 further informs the error including the corresponding error type information 1311 The signal S3 is sent to the management control module 14 . That is to say, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the on-site production line personnel can trigger the management control module 14 to send the error type check instruction S4 after an error occurs. In other embodiments, as soon as an error occurs, the second processing unit 132 of the logic processing module 13 can actively send the corresponding error type information 1311 to the management control module 14, which depends on practical design.

Please refer to the second figure. The second figure is a flow chart of the method for judging the error type provided by the preferred embodiment of the present invention. A preferred embodiment of the present invention also provides an error type judging method, which is implemented by using the error type judging system shown in the first figure, and includes the following steps S101 to S104.

Step S101 : Use the first processing unit 122 of the BIOS 12 to determine whether the error occurrence signal S1 including the first error information is received when the servo operation unit 11 executes the program and generates the first error information.

Step S102: Use the first processing unit 122 of the BIOS 12 to find out one of the second error messages corresponding to the first error message according to the error type comparison table 1211, and then according to the error type comparison table 1211 Find one of the corresponding error type information with one of the second error information corresponding to the above, and define one of the corresponding error type information as the corresponding error type The information 1311 is used to transmit the error type signal S2 including the corresponding error type information 1311 through the information transmission protocol.

Step S103: Use the second processing unit 132 of the logic processing module 13 to receive the error type signal S2, parse out the corresponding error type information 1311, store the corresponding error type information 1311 in the second storage unit 131, and transmit the corresponding error type information 1311.

Step S104 : use the management control module 14 to receive the corresponding error type information 1311 so as to display the corresponding error type information 1311 .

Wherein, other detailed descriptions of each step have been mentioned in the above paragraphs, so they are not repeated here.

To sum up, after using the error type judgment system and method provided by the present invention, since the error type comparison table is established in the basic input and output system in advance, when an error occurs during the operation of the server, the basic input and output The system can immediately identify what type of error it is, and can directly transmit it to the logic processing module to trigger the logic processing module to store and transmit it to the management control module, so that the on-site personnel can know the type of error when the error occurs, so that the Quickly find the source of the error, which can effectively reduce the inconvenience of other personnel, and can effectively improve the processing efficiency when errors occur.

Through the detailed description of the preferred embodiments above, it is hoped that the features and spirit of the present invention can be described more clearly, and the scope of the present invention is not limited by the preferred embodiments disclosed above. On the contrary, the intention is to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements within the scope of the claimed scope of the present invention.

1: Error type judgment system 11: Servo operation unit 12: Basic Input Output System 121: The first storage unit 1211: Wrong type comparison table 122: first processing unit 13: Logic processing module 131: Second storage unit 1311: Corresponding error type information 132: Second processing unit 14: Management control module S1: Error occurrence signal S2: Wrong type signal S3: Error notification signal S4: Error type check instruction S101-S104: Steps

The first figure is a block diagram showing an error type judgment system provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and The second figure is a flow chart showing a method for judging an error type provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1: Error type judgment system 11: Servo operation unit 12: Basic Input Output System 121: The first storage unit 1211: Wrong type comparison table 122: first processing unit 13: Logic processing module 131: Second storage unit 1311: Corresponding error type information 132: Second processing unit 14: Management control module S1: Error occurrence signal S2: Wrong type signal S3: Error notification signal S4: Error type check instruction

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An error type judgment system, including: a servo operation unit for sending an error occurrence signal including the first error information when an execution program is executed and a first error information occurs; A Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), including: a first storage unit storing an error type comparison table including a plurality of second error information and a plurality of error type information corresponding to the second error information respectively; and a first processing unit, electrically connected to the first storage unit, and communicatively connected to the servo operation unit, for finding out the source of the first error information according to the error type comparison table when the error occurrence signal is received corresponding to one of the second error information, and then find out the corresponding one of the error type information according to the error type comparison table and one of the above-mentioned corresponding second error information , and define one of the corresponding error type information as a corresponding error type information, so as to transmit an error type signal including the corresponding error type information through an information transmission protocol; A logic processing module, including: a second storage unit; and a second processing unit, electrically connected to the second storage unit and communicatively connected to the first processing unit, for parsing out the corresponding error type information when receiving the error type signal, and the corresponding error type information is stored in the second storage unit and used to transmit the corresponding error type information; and A management control module is communicatively connected to the second processing unit for receiving the corresponding error type information. The error type determination system according to claim 1, wherein the management control module is further configured to transmit an error type check command to the second processing unit, so as to trigger the second processing unit to the corresponding error type information sent to the management control module. The error type judgment system according to claim 1, wherein the logic processing module is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). The error type judgment system according to claim 1, wherein the management control module is a baseboard management controller (BMC). The error type judgment system according to claim 1, wherein the information transmission protocol is a serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) protocol. An error type judging method is implemented using the error type judging system as described in claim 1, and includes the following steps: (a) Using the first processing unit of the basic input output system to determine whether the error occurrence signal including the first error information sent by the servo operation unit when the execution program is executed and the first error information is generated is received ; (b) when the judgment result of step (a) is yes, use the first processing unit of the basic input output system to find out the second errors corresponding to the first error information according to the error type comparison table One of the information, and then according to the error type comparison table and one of the second error information corresponding to the above to find out the corresponding one of the error type information, and the corresponding one of the above error type information. One of the error type information is defined as the corresponding error type information, so that the error type signal including the corresponding error type information is transmitted through the information transmission protocol; (c) using the second processing unit of the logic processing module to receive the error type signal, parse out the corresponding error type information, store the corresponding error type information in the second storage unit, and transmit the corresponding error type information; and (d) using the management control module to receive the corresponding error type information, so as to display the corresponding error type information; Wherein, when the judgment result of the step (a) is no, the step (a) is repeatedly executed. The error type judgment method according to claim 6, wherein the logic processing module is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). The method for judging an error type according to claim 6, wherein the management control module is a baseboard management controller (BMC). The error type determination method according to claim 6, wherein the information transmission protocol is a serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) protocol.

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