From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
bp@suse.de, m.chehab@samsung.com, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] apei, mce: Call MCE-specific code only for X86 architecture.
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:53:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505145331.GC4373@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5367A181.3060300@linaro.org>
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:34:41PM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> acpi_disable_cmcff as global value can switch off/on MC entries
> analysing via kernel args.
No, it switches off firmware first mode for correctable errors because
of buggy BIOSes - 9ad95879cd1b2 (what else...)
> This glob value resides in x86 ACPI code and has meaning only for MCE
> related mechanism,
Of course it doesn't!
> that is why I have moved it under hest_parse_cmc.
See APEI section in the ACPI spec "18.4 Firmware First Error Handling."
Regardless of what your version of APEI does, you actually shouldn't
need to touch acpi_disable_cmcff at all as it not arch-specific.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-05 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 15:14 [PATCH 0/7] APEI: Make APEI architecture independent Tomasz Nowicki
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 1/7] apei, mce: Call MCE-specific code only for X86 architecture Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-05 11:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-05 14:34 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-05 14:53 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-05-05 15:32 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-05 15:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-05 15:36 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/7] acpi, apei, ghes: Introduce more generic mechanism to init/deinit GHES error notifications Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-13 18:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-15 14:31 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-21 18:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 3/7] ACPI, APEI, GHES: Introduce ACPI_APEI_NMI to make NMI error notification a GHES feature Tomasz Nowicki
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 4/7] acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out NMI error notification context Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-13 19:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-23 12:06 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-23 16:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-26 13:26 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-26 13:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-26 14:02 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] acpi, apei, ghes: Attach NMI init/deinit functions while CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_NMI is enabled Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-13 19:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 6/7] acpi, apei, ghes: Make unmapping functionality independent from architecture Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-13 20:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-14 12:32 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-14 12:35 ` Will Deacon
2014-05-14 12:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-14 12:48 ` Will Deacon
2014-05-14 12:52 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-14 13:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-09 15:14 ` [PATCH 7/7] acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out ioremap virtual memory for IRQ and NMI context Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-14 17:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-05 9:25 ` [PATCH 0/7] APEI: Make APEI architecture independent Tomasz Nowicki
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